Assembling Work: Remaking Factory Regimes in Japanese Multinationals in Britain

by Tony Elger, Chris Smith, Chris Smith

Japanese manufacturing firms established in Britain have often been portrayed as carriers of Japanese corporate best practice for work and employment. In this book, the authors challenge these views through case study research, undertaken at several Japanese manufacturing plants in Britain during the 1990s.
The authors argue that in actual fact production and employment regimes are adapted and 're-made' in a number of ways, responding to specific...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199241511
• ISBN13: 9780199241514
• Release Date: June 2005
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 428 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"