Lean Work: Empowerment and Exploitation in the Global Auto Industry Book

	Contributors
	Acknowledgments
1	Lean Production and Labor: Empowerment and Exploitation	1
2	Unions and Management by Stress	41
3	Workers' Roles in Lean Production: The Implications for Worker Representation	54
4	The Role of the Union and Employee Involvement in Lean Production	70
5	Lean Production at Suzuki and Toyota: A Historical Perspective	81
6	The Transformation of Japanese Industrial Relations: A Case Study of the Automobile Industry	108
7	Beyond Management: Problems of the Average Car Company	131
8	Are Japanese Transplants Restoring U.S. Competitiveness or Dumping Their Social Problems in the U.S. Market?	156
9	The International Assembly Plant Study: Philosophical and Methodological Issues	181
10	Subaru-Isuzu: Worker Response in a Nonunion Japanese Transplant	199
11	"Democratic Taylorism": The Toyota Production System at NUMMI	207
12	Team Concept at CAMI	220
13	Whose Team? Lean Production at Mazda U.S.A.	235
14	Lean Production in a Mexican Context	247
15	Can Maquilas Be Lean? The Case of Wiring Harness Production in Mexico	260
16	Are Assembly Lines Just More Efficient? Reflections on Volvo's "Humanistic" Manufacturing	277
17	Lean Production and Co-Determination: The German Experience	292
18	Lean Production and Training: The Case of a Japanese Supplier Firm	311
19	A Worker-Centered Approach to Education and Training	326
20	Lean Production, Labor-Management Cooperation, and the Future of the NLRA Paradigm	343
21	Public Policy and the Evolution of Change in Industrial Relations	350
	Index	363