Alternatives to Lean Production: Work Organization in the Swedish Auto Industry
In: Cornell International Industrial and Labor Relations Reports
Frontmatter --Contents --Introduction to the Paperback Edition --Preface --1. The Assembly-Line Regime and the Volvo Trajectory --2. The Evolution and Transplantation of Toyotism --3. The Swedish Automotive Industry: Small-Scale Car Makers, Global Truck Producers --4. Pressures for Change: The Labor Market and Trade Unions --5. Organizational and Technical Design of Swedish Automotive Assembly --6. Competitive "Craft Work" in Two Bus Plants --7. Pioneers in Car and Truck Assembly: Volvo Kalmar and Volvo LB --8. Innovations in Uddevalla, Stalemate in Gothenburg --9. Methodological Problems in Comparing Working Conditions --10. The Degrading Monotony of the Assembly Line --11. Assembly Designs and Working Conditions: A Five-Plant Comparison --12. Shop-Floor Power and the Dynamics of Group Work --13. Toward Postlean Production --Notes --References --Index --About the Author