Work and Employment Relations in the Automobile Industry

by E. Charron (Editor), P. Stewart (Editor)

Overview

This book examines the form and character of the internationalisation of employee relations in the automobile industry. It goes on to examine the impact of the new forms of regionalization and their impact on employment relations within firms. Case studies are used to examine the transformation of employment standards, including General Motors, Toyota, Renault, FIAT and Peugeot. The book also assesses the significance of the emergence of regional integration processes in the form of regional economic spaces (EC, Nafta, Mercusor and ASEAN).

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349722303
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	12/19/2003
Edition description:	1st ed. 2004
Pages:	297
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

JOSÉ RICARDO RAMALHO Professor of Sociology, Federal University of Rio de Janiero, Brazil MARCO AURÉLIO SANTANA Associate Professor of Sociology, Federal University of Rio de Janiero, Brazil LUIS PAOLO BRESCIANI Director for Economic Development, City Government at Santo Andre, Brazil RUY QUADROS Assistant Professor, Department of Science and Technology, Unicamp, Brazil LUIS ANTONIO CARDOSO Professor and Researcher, Rio de Janiero North State University, Brazil LUDGER PRIES Chair of Sociology of Organizations and Participation Studies, Department of Social Science, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany MYEONG-KEE CHUNG Professor of Economics, Hannam University, Korea ANDY DANFORD Employment Studies Research Unit, University of West of England VALERIA PULIGNANO Lecturer in Industrial Relations, University of Warwick Business School, UK UDO REHFELDT Researcher, Institut de Recherches Economiques et Sociales, Noisy-le-Grand, France YOLANDA MONTIEL Researcher, CIESAS, Mexico STEVE BABSON Professor of Labor Studies, Wayne State University WAYNE LEWCHUK Director, Labour Studies Program, McMaster University, Canada CHARLOTTE YATES Professor of Political Science and Labor Studies, Labour Studies Program, McMaster University, Canada MASAKI SARUTA Professor, Faculty of Management, Chukyo University, Japan

Table of Contents

Introduction; P.Stewart & E.Charron Volkswagen's Modular System, Regional Development and Workers' Systems in Resende, Brazil; J.R.Ramalho & M.A.Santana The Contract of Change: Organizational Innovation and the Roles of Workers in the Brazilian Truck Industry; L.P.Bresciani & R.Quadros The Rationalized Factory and Changes in Work Management: The Case of the Fiat Post-Fordist Auto Plant in Brazil; L.A.Cardoso New Production Systems and Workers' Participation - A Contradiction? Some Lessons from German Automobile Companies; L.Pries From Submission to Confrontation: Labour Relations under the New Production Technology at Asan Plant of Hyundai Motors; M.K.Chung The Social Relations of Lean Production in the British Auomponents Sector: A Case Study of Labour Subordination and Resistance; A.Danford The Role of the Unions and Workplace Change in Motor Manufacturing in Italy: Flanked by Unilateral and Bilateral Employee Relationships; V.Pulignano European Works Councils and International Restructuring: A Perspective for European Collective Bargaining?; U.Ruhfeldt The Restructuring of Work, Employment and Labour Relations in the Mexican Automobile Sector (Volkswagen and Nissan); Y.Montiel Making Renaults for Europe: Workers from Renault's Plants Outside France; E.Charron The 1998 Flint-GM Strike: Bellwether of Continental Integration and Lean Production; S.Babson Patterns of Labour Control and the Erosion of Labour Standards: Towards an International Study of the Quality of Working Life in the Automobile Industry (Canada, Japan and the UK); P.Stewart, W.Lewchuk, C.Yates, M.Saruta & A.Danford