We Sell Our Time No More: Workers' Struggles Against Lean Production in the British Car Industry

Paul Stewart,Mike Richardson,Andy Danford,Ken Murphy,Tony Richardson

We Sell Our Time No More: Workers' Struggles Against Lean Production in the British Car Industry
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Pluto Press
Country
United Kingdom
Published
20 July 2009
Pages
272
ISBN
9780745328676

We Sell Our Time No More: Workers’ Struggles Against Lean Production in the British Car Industry

Paul Stewart,Mike Richardson,Andy Danford,Ken Murphy,Tony Richardson

This is the story of workers’ struggles in the British car industry, from the Second World War until today.

Told from the viewpoint of the workers, the book chronicles how they responded to a variety of management and union strategies, from piece rate working, through measured day work, and eventually to ‘lean production’ beginning in the late 1980s.

Focusing on two companies, Vauxhall-GM and Rover/BMW, this book shows how they developed their approaches to managing labour relations. It highlights the success of various forms of struggle to establish safer and more humane working environments, as well as their failures.

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