Just another car factory? : lean production and its discontents /

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This study of CAMI Automotive, a unionized joint venture between General Motors and Suzuki, is the most comprehensive ever undertaken of a lean production plant. James Rinehart, Christopher Huxley, and David Robertson address a topic that has inspired fierce debate in industrial relations, sociology...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Rinehart, James W., 1933-
Other Authors: Huxley, Christopher Victor, 1944-, Robertson, David, 1951-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : ILR Press, 1997.
Subjects:
Automobile industry and trade > North America > Management.
Corporations, Japanese > North America.
Downsizing of organizations > North America.
Automobile industry workers > North America > Attitudes.
Lean manufacturing > North America.
Sociétés japonaises > Amérique du Nord.
Personnel > Réduction > Amérique du Nord.
Travailleurs de l'automobile > Amérique du Nord > Attitudes.
Production allégée > Amérique du Nord.
Automobiles > Industrie et commerce > Amérique du Nord > Gestion.
Lean manufacturing
Automobile industry and trade > Management
Automobile industry workers > Attitudes
Corporations, Japanese
Downsizing of organizations
Kraftfahrzeugindustrie
Lean Management
Arbeitsbedingungen
Auto-industrie.
Uitbesteding van werk.
Organisatieverandering.
North America
Kanada
USA
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Ch. 1. The strike that was not supposed to happen
  • Ch. 2. Touring the plant
  • Ch. 3. Lean production : the essentials and CAMI's version
  • Ch. 4. Recruitment and training
  • Ch. 5. Working at CAMI : multiskilling or multitasking?
  • Ch. 6. Working lean
  • Ch. 7. Team concept and working in teams
  • Ch. 8. Gender on the line
  • Ch. 9. The kaizen agenda
  • Ch. 10. Kaizen : shop floor responses and outcomes
  • Ch. 11. Commitment
  • Ch. 12. The union
  • Ch. 13. Is CAMI exceptional?
  • Ch. 14. Just another car factory?

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