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Assembling Work - Remaking Factory Regimes in Japanese Multinationals in Britain (Hardcover, New)
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Assembling Work - Remaking Factory Regimes in Japanese Multinationals in Britain (Hardcover, New)
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Japanese manufacturing firms established in Britain have often been
portrayed as carriers of Japanese corporate best practice for work
and employment. In this book, the authors challenge these views
through case study research, undertaken at several Japanese
manufacturing plants in Britain during the 1990s.
The authors argue that in actual fact production and employment
regimes are adapted and 're-made' in a number of ways, responding
to specific corporate and local contexts. In particular, they focus
upon the ways in which Japanese and British managers have sought to
construct distinctive work regimes in the light of their particular
branch plant mandates and competencies, the evolving character of
management-worker relations within factories and the varied product
and labor market conditions they face. The book highlights the
constraints as well as the opportunities facing managers of these
greenfield workplaces, and the uncertainties that continued to
characterize the development of management strategies. Ultimately
the authors show how arguments about the role of overseas branch
plants in the dissemination of management practices must take more
careful account of the varied ways in which such factories are
implicated in wider corporate strategies. The operations of
international firms are embedded within intractable features of
capitalist employment relations, especially as they are 're-made'
in specific local and national settings.
This book is an important intervention in contemporary debate
about international firms and globalization, and will be of
interest to teachers, researchers, and advanced students of this
subject from disciplines including Business Studies, Organization
Studies, Industrial Relations, Sociology, Political Economy, and
Economic and Social Geography.
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