TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rinehart,James
AU  - Huxley,Christopher
AU  - Robertson,David
TI  - Just Another Car Factory?: Lean Production and Its Discontents 
SN  - 9781501729690
AV  - HD9710.N572 R56 1997
U1  - 629.2/068 21
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - Ithaca, NY
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - Automobile industry and trade
KW  - North America
KW  - Management
KW  - Automobile industry workers
KW  - Attitudes
KW  - Corporations, Japanese
KW  - Downsizing of organizations
KW  - General Economics
KW  - Labor History
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Author Recognition --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; CHAPTER 1. The Strike That Was Not Supposed to Happen --; CHAPTER 2. Touring the Plant --; CHAPTER 3. Lean Production: The Essentials and CAMPs Version --; CHAPTER 4. Recruitment and Training --; CHAPTER 5. Working at CAMI: Multiskilling or Multitasking? --; CHAPTER 6. Working Lean --; CHAPTER 7. Team Concept and Working in Teams --; CHAPTER 8. Gender on the Line --; CHAPTER 9. The Kaizen Agenda --; CHAPTER 10. Kaizen: Shop Floor Responses and Outcomes --; CHAPTER 11. Commitment --; CHAPTER 12. The Union --; CHAPTER 13. Is CAM! Exceptional? --; CHAPTER 14. Just Another Car Factory? --; APPENDIX I. Methodology --; APPENDIX II. Questionnaire Items Referred to in the Text --; References --; Index; restricted access
N2  - This study of CAMI Automotive, a unionized joint venture between General Motors and Suzuki, is the most comprehensive ever undertaken of a lean production plant. James Rinehart, Christopher Huxley, and David Robertson address a topic that has inspired fierce debate in industrial relations, sociology, labor studies, and human resource management. Heralded as a model of lean production when it opened in 1989, CAMI promised workers something different from traditional plants—a humane environment, empowerment, and cooperative labor-management relations. However, the enthusiasm workers felt during the orientation and early phases of production steadily declined, as did their involvement in participatory activities. Workers came to describe CAMI as "just another car factory." Union challenges and shopfloor resistance to key elements of the lean system grew, capped by a five-week strike in 1992. The authors attribute workers' disillusionment to lean production itself rather than to North American managers' inadequate implementation
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501729690
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501729690
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ER  -