Breaking from Taylorism: Changing Forms of Work in the Automobile Industry

Abstract

1. The restructuring of the world automobile industry: opportunities for new forms of work 2. Changing markets and the rise of Toyotism: the development of the national car industries since the 1970s 3. Company strategies for answering the challenges 4. Industrial relations in the process of change 5. Reorganising quality control - between pressure for efficiency and a job enrichment orientation 6. Coping with new technology: skilled workers between specialisation and flexibilisation 7. Regulating work performance and plant efficiency: changes in control and structures of work 8. Comparative achievements in labour productivity and changes in personnel structures: trends and development patterns 9. Tapping new resources: skill levels and worker participation 10. Is the assembly line obsolete? 11. Modern times in the automobile factory: trends toward new forms of work

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