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Author: E. Kahveci
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2006-07-12
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 0230209386
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe maritime car carrier industry has been entirely neglected by social scientists. This book examines globalization changes in cost structure and dynamics; in ownership, freight, labour and other markets; in technological innovation and ship design; and in relation to car manufacturers, ship management companies and crewing agents.
Author: Timothy J. Minchin
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2021-04-01
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 0820358932
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 2018 almost half of all vehicles made in North America were produced at foreign-owned plants, and the sector was on track to monopolize the market. Despite this, the industry has been overlooked compared with its domestic counterpart, both in scholarship and popular memory. Redressing this neglect, America’s Other Automakers provides a new history of the foreignowned auto sector, the first to extensively draw on archival sources and to articulate the human agency of participants, including workers, managers, and industry recruiters. Timothy J. Minchin challenges the view that the industry’s growth primarily reflected incentives, stressing human agency and the complexity of individual stories instead. Deeply human in its approach, the book also explores the industry’s impact on grassroots communities, showing that it had more costs than supporters acknowledged. Drawing on a wide range of primary and secondary sources, America’s Other Automakers uncovers significant tensions over unionization, reports of discriminatory hiring, and unease about the industry’s rapid growth, critically exploring seven large assembly facilities and their impact on the communities in which they were built.
Author: H. A. Turner
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2017-07-06
Total Pages: 366
ISBN-13: 1351669427
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book, originally published in 1967, takes the automobile industry experience as a basis for a wider view of industrial relations, trends and developments of the 1950s and 60s. The study also analyses the emergence of new institutions and systems of labour-management relationships. It contains chapters on the effects of automotion and technical change, on the impact of fluctuations in the market for cars and on wage trends. There are detailed surveys of some of the biggest post-war disputes and especially of trade union organization, the shop steward system, the experience of individual firms, such as Austin, Ford and Fiat. There is also a comparative survey of labour relationships in other major car manufacturing countries such as the USA, Germany and Japan.
Author: Thomas H. Klier
Publisher: W.E. Upjohn Institute
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 439
ISBN-13: 0880993332
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book offers a comprehensive look at an industry that plays a growing role in motor vehicle production in the United States.
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Published: 1980
Total Pages: 1068
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Total Pages: 680
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: James Rinehart
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2018-09-05
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 1501729691
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
Author: Philip S. Bagwell
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2022-12-30
Total Pages: 440
ISBN-13: 1000818217
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginally published in 1982, The Railwaymen examines the impact of the transformation which took place in the British Railways in the second half of the 20th Century on the people who maintained British railway services and reveals the change which took place in the union to which most of them belonged: the National Union of Railwaymen (now part of the National Union of Rail and Maritime Transport Workers: RMT). The union’s reaction to the Beeching closures of the 1960s and the Industrial Relations Act of 1971, its policies on the closed shop, inter-union rivalries, representation in Parliament and the constitution of the Labour Party are treated authoritatively by the author who had access to all the union’s records.
