Life on the Line in Contemporary Manufacturing the Workplace Experience of Lean Production and the "Japanese" Model
- List Price: $86.00
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
- Publish date: 06/01/2000
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How much do we know about the contemporary workplace? What influence have Japanese management techniques had on the way work is organized?
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Rick Delbridge sought an answer to these questions by working on the shop floor in a Japanese consumer electronics transplant and a European automotive components supplier. His book offers rich empirical data on the lived reality of work and raises a number of important issues about the best ways to understand the complex and changing nature of work.
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