The Volvo Experience: Alternatives to Lean Production in the Swedish Auto Industry

Christian Berggren

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The assembly-line regime and the Volvo trajectory the evolution and transplantation of Toyotism the Swedish automotive industry - small-scale car-makers, global truck producers pressures for change - the labour market and trade unions organizational and technical design of Swedish automotive assembly competitive craft in two bus plants pioneers in car and truck assembly - Volvo Kalmar and Volvo LB innovations in Uddevalla, stalemate in Gothenburg methodological problems in comparing working conditions the degrading monotony of the assembly line assembly designs and working conditions - five-plant comparison shop-floor power and the dynamics of group work toward post-lean production.

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