Enriching Production: A Human and Productive Alternative to Lean Production at the Volvo Uddevalla and Kalmar Plants Book

	Preface
	The book and its authors
	The Uddevalla experience in perspective	1
	The creation of a new production system at the Volvo automobile assembly plant in Uddevalla, Sweden	37
	Production system design - a brief summary of some Swedish design efforts	61
	The Uddevalla plant: Why did it succeed with a holistic approach and why did it come to an end?	75
	Volvo Kalmar - twice a pioneer	87
	The fate of the branch plants - performance versus power	105
	Assembly skills, process engineering and engineering design	127
	Building for new production concepts	137
	Designed for learning: A tale of two auto plants	157
	Limits to innovation in work organization?	179
	Group work and the reception of Uddevalla in German car industry	199
	Volvo truck and bus in the UK: The clash of the Titans	217
	Volvo-Gent: A Japanese transplant in Belgium or beyond?	231
	First DAF, then Volvo and now Mitsubishi	249
	Missing the road: Working life at Volvo Nova Scotia	269
	Volvo in Malaysia	283
	The origins of team work at Renault	293
	Fait accompli? A Machiavellian interpretation of the Renault-Volvo merger	309
	Japanese work policy: Opportunity, challenge or threat?	329
	Lean production in the automobile industry: Second thoughts	367
	Humanization of the production system and work at Toyota Motor Co. and Toyota Motor Kyushu	383
	Recent developments at Toyota Motor Co.	405
	Social preconditions for lean management and its further development	427
	Lean production. The Micro-Macro dimension, employment and the welfare state	437