Between Fordism and Flexibility

Between Fordism and Flexibility PDF Author: Steven Tolliday
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 348

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Book Description
A survey of the development of the automobile industry from its origins to the present in a perspective informed by current upheavals in markets, technology and work organization. The volume examines the international diffusion of the Fordist model, Fordism being the manufacture of standardized products using special-purpose machinery and unskilled labour. The book goes on to consider how far the recent changes in the industry mark a break with Fordism and draws on the implications for industrial relations and trade union strategy