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Author Elger, Tony, 1946-

Title Assembling work : remaking factory regimes in Japanese multinationals in Britain / Tony Elger and Chris Smith
Published New York : Oxford University Press, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 414 pages)
Contents Acknowledgements; List of Tables and Figures; Abbreviations; Part I: Theoretical Issues; Part II: Manufacturing Subsidiaries: Cluster and Companies; Part III: Remaking Working Lives: Management and Workers; References; Index
Summary Japanese manufacturing firms established in Britain have often been portrayed as carriers of Japanese corporate best practice for work and employment. In this book, the authors challenge these views through case study research undertaken at several Japanese manufacturing plants in Britain during the 1990s
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-392) and index
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Subject Corporations, Japanese -- Great Britain
Foreign subsidiaries -- Great Britain
Manufacturing industries -- Great Britain -- Foreign ownership
Industrial relations -- Great Britain
Industrial management -- Japan.
International business enterprises.
Globalization.
globalism.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General.
Corporations, Japanese
Foreign subsidiaries
Globalization
Industrial management
Industrial relations
International business enterprises
Manufacturing industries -- Foreign ownership
Arbeidsverhoudingen.
Buitenlandse bedrijven.
Arbeidsorganisatie.
Internationale ondernemingen.
Great Britain
Japan
Form Electronic book
Author Smith, Chris, 1953-
ISBN 9780191529122
0191529125
9780199241514
0199241511