TY  - BOOK
AU  - Berggren,Christian
TI  - Alternatives to Lean Production: Work Organization in the Swedish Auto Industry 
T2  - Cornell International Industrial and Labor Relations Reports
SN  - 9781501722165
U1  - 338.7/6292222 20/eng/20230216
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - Ithaca, NY
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - Automobile industry and trade
KW  - Management
KW  - Employee participation
KW  - Sweden
KW  - Case studies
KW  - Automobile industry workers
KW  - Attitudes
KW  - General Economics
KW  - Labor History
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501722165
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501722165
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501722165/original
ER  -