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Author Rinehart, James W., 1933-

Title Just another car factory? : lean production and its discontents / James Rinehart, Christopher Huxley, and David Robertson
Published Ithaca : ILR Press, 1997

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 249 pages) : illustrations
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?
Summary 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, labor studies, and human resource management. Heralded as a model of lean production when it opened in 1989, CAMI promised workers something different from traditional plants-a humane environment, empowerment, and cooperative labor-management relations. However, the enthusiasm workers felt during the orientation and early phases of production steadily declined, as did their involvement in participatory activities. Workers came to describe CAMI as "just another car factory." Union challenges and shopfloor resistance to key elements of the lean system grew, capped by a five-week strike in 1992. The authors attribute workers' disillusionment to lean production itself rather than to North American managers' inadequate implementation
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-241) and index
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Subject 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
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
Form Electronic book
Author Huxley, Christopher Victor, 1944-
Robertson, David, 1951-
ISBN 9781501729690
1501729691