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Alternatives to Lean Production : Work Organization in the Swedish Auto Industry / Christian Berggren.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Cornell International Industrial and Labor Relations ReportsPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©1993Edition: second editionDescription: 1 online resource (312 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781501722165
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  • 338.7/6292222 20/eng/20230216
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction to the Paperback Edition -- Preface -- 1. The Assembly-Line Regime and the Volvo Trajectory -- 2. The Evolution and Transplantation of Toyotism -- 3. The Swedish Automotive Industry: Small-Scale Car Makers, Global Truck Producers -- 4. Pressures for Change: The Labor Market and Trade Unions -- 5. Organizational and Technical Design of Swedish Automotive Assembly -- 6. Competitive "Craft Work" in Two Bus Plants -- 7. Pioneers in Car and Truck Assembly: Volvo Kalmar and Volvo LB -- 8. Innovations in Uddevalla, Stalemate in Gothenburg -- 9. Methodological Problems in Comparing Working Conditions -- 10. The Degrading Monotony of the Assembly Line -- 11. Assembly Designs and Working Conditions: A Five-Plant Comparison -- 12. Shop-Floor Power and the Dynamics of Group Work -- 13. Toward Postlean Production -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About the Author
Summary: The Swedish auto industry has developed a distinct production design and work organization, exploring alternatives to the assembly line and to the traditional shop-floor hierarchy, with a model of teamwork that increases independent decision making and elicits strong union commitment. Berggren evaluates in detail the reorganization of work within the Swedish auto industry from 1970 to 1990. In his introduction to the new edition, he explores the significance of Volvo's decision to close its two most innovative plants.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction to the Paperback Edition -- Preface -- 1. The Assembly-Line Regime and the Volvo Trajectory -- 2. The Evolution and Transplantation of Toyotism -- 3. The Swedish Automotive Industry: Small-Scale Car Makers, Global Truck Producers -- 4. Pressures for Change: The Labor Market and Trade Unions -- 5. Organizational and Technical Design of Swedish Automotive Assembly -- 6. Competitive "Craft Work" in Two Bus Plants -- 7. Pioneers in Car and Truck Assembly: Volvo Kalmar and Volvo LB -- 8. Innovations in Uddevalla, Stalemate in Gothenburg -- 9. Methodological Problems in Comparing Working Conditions -- 10. The Degrading Monotony of the Assembly Line -- 11. Assembly Designs and Working Conditions: A Five-Plant Comparison -- 12. Shop-Floor Power and the Dynamics of Group Work -- 13. Toward Postlean Production -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About the Author

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The Swedish auto industry has developed a distinct production design and work organization, exploring alternatives to the assembly line and to the traditional shop-floor hierarchy, with a model of teamwork that increases independent decision making and elicits strong union commitment. Berggren evaluates in detail the reorganization of work within the Swedish auto industry from 1970 to 1990. In his introduction to the new edition, he explores the significance of Volvo's decision to close its two most innovative plants.

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