Between Fordism and Flexibility

Description

A survey of the development of the automobile industry from its origins to the present in a perspective informed by current upheavals in markets, technology and work organization. The volume examines the international diffusion of the Fordist model, Fordism being the manufacture of standardized products using special-purpose machinery and unskilled labour. The book goes on to consider how far the recent changes in the industry mark a break with Fordism and draws on the implications for industrial relations and trade union strategy.

Jonathan Zeitlin and Steven Tolliday

'... an exciting panorama of the history of the world's auto industry labour/management relations ... The quality and breadth of its empirical research makes it near unique.' Business History