We sell our time no more : workers' struggles against lean production in the British car industry / Paul Stewart ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stewart, Paul, 1956-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Automobile industry workers--Labor unions--Great Britain.

Automobile industry workers.

Industrial relations--Great Britain.

Industrial relations.

Automobile industry and trade--Great Britain.

Automobile industry and trade.

Lean manufacturing--Great Britain.

Lean manufacturing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Pluto, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The success and failures of British automobile workers.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations and Acronyms

1. Understanding the Lean Automobile Industry

Introduction

Lean Production

the Context and the Promises

Lean Production for Whom?

Objectives of the Book

2. The Prehistory of Lean Production: Employee Relations in the British Automobile Industry Since the Second World War

Regimes of Control: From Piecework to Measured Day Work

Contemporary Contrasts and Continuities

Bargaining in the Context of Local Communities

Wages, Unions and Conflicts in the British System

Regimes of Control: Measured Day Work and the Rise of Lean Production

3. From 'Embrace and Change' to 'Engage and Change': Trade Unions Renewal and New Management Strategies

Industrial Relations without Industrial Relations?

Data and Method

Union Responses in Each Company

Rover: 'Embrace and Change'

Vauxhall: 'Engage and Change'

The Experience of NMTs on the Shopfloor: An Inter-Company Comparison

The Acceptance of NMTs on the Shopfloor: An Inter-Company Comparison

Concluding Remarks

Appendix: Explanatory variables

4. Striking Smarter and Harder: The New Industrial Relations of Lean Production? The 1995-6 Vauxhall Dispute

Management Misjudges the Shopfloor

Confronting Lean: Laying the Basis for Union Advance

Conclusion

The History of the Fight to Control Lean Production

Addendum: Data Summary

5. Round Table Discussion on Lean Production

Lean and Outsourcing

Union, Shop Stewards and Lean" Capturing Hearts and Minds

Comments from Ken Murphy

Comments from John Cooper

Comments from Gary Lindsay

6. Rover-BMW: From Rover Tomorrow to the Longbridge Closure and the Bitter Fruits of Lean Production

Introduction.

The Recent Origins of the Crisis: Lean Production and the Rise of a New Management Regime

The Background to the Implementation of Rover Tomorrow

Rover Tomorrow

Implementation of Rover Tomorrow

The 1998 Cowley Agreement

The Working Time Account

A New Model, the Rover 75

The Longbridge Crisis, October 1998

Implementation of the 1998 Agreement

Crisis 2000 - What Future for Longbridge?

The Demonstration for Longbridge, 1 April 2000

The Union Position Changes

7. Lean Production: From 'Engage and Change' to Endless Change

Embedding Lean Production at Vauxhall-GM, 1989-2001

GM'S PROJECT OLYMPIA 2001, BMW AND PARTNERSHIP

Worker Attributes

Workplace Stress

Appendix: Project Olympia Framework Document

Conclusion: Lean Production and the Individualisation of Workplace Stress: The New Class Struggle from Above

Worker and Union Responses to Lean

Challenging Lean Production as a Strategy and Ideology

APPENDIX 1: SURVEY OF CAR WORKERS BY THE TGWU AND CARDIFF UNIVERSITY TRADE UNION RESEARCH UNIT (QUESTIONNAIRE 1996)

APPENDIX 2: WORKFORCE SURVEY ON WORKPLACE ISSUES

APPENDIX 3: WORKING ON THE LINE 'AFTER FORDISM': A DIARY

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781849644228

1849644225

OCLC:

656855983