Enfrentando El Cambio/Confronting Change Obreros Del Automovil Y Produccion Esbelta En America Del Norte/Auto Labor and Lean Production in North Ameri
- List Price: $24.95
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: Wayne State Univ Pr
- Publish date: 10/01/1999
Inside the factory, management pursues new models of "lean production" that require workers to produce more with less -- less time, less support, less material -- in an atmosphere of accelerated and intensified labor.
Outside the factory, "freetrade" policies and regional investment strategies widen the reach of transnational corporations, creating new opportunities in Mexico, Canada, and the U.S. for pitting worker against worker in a mutually destructive competition for jobs.
In Confronting Change, researchers from a diverse range of universities and unions explore the impact of these changes on work and workers. The case studies and analyses show the wide range of potential outcomes as workers struggle to become actors, rather than victims, in the emerging North American auto industry
