Life on the Line in Contemporary Manufacturing - The Workplace Experience of Lean Production and the `Japanese' Model (Paperback, Revised)

What influence have Japanese management techniques (Just-in Time-Production and Total Quality Management, for example) had on the way work is organized in `transplants', and more broadly in other firms and sectors? Rick Delbridge sought an answer to these questions by working on the shopfloor in a Japanese consumer electronics transplant and a European automotive components supplier in order to witness and experience life on the line in contemporary manufacturing. He offers rich empirical data on the lived reality of work and a management practice that may share little in common with that found in the textbooks; he also raises a number of important issues about the best ways to understand the complex and changing nature of work.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	March 2000
First published:	May 2000
Authors:	Rick Delbridge (Research Fellow at Cardiff Business School)
Dimensions:	235 x 156 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	246
Edition:	Revised
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-924043-2
Categories:	Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Work & labour Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies > Manufacturing industries > General
LSN:	0-19-924043-4
Barcode:	9780199240432

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