TY - BOOK AU - Green,William C. AU - Yanarella,Ernest J. TI - North American auto unions in crisis: lean production as contested terrain T2 - SUNY series in the sociology of work SN - 058504290X AV - HD6515.A82 I576 1996eb U1 - 331.88/1292/097 20 PY - 1996/// CY - Albany PB - State University of New York Press KW - International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America KW - CAW-Canada KW - Syndicat international des travailleurs unis de l'automobile, de l'a�eronautique, de l'astronautique et des instruments aratoires d'Am�erique KW - TCA-Canada KW - fast KW - Automobile industry workers KW - Labor unions KW - United States KW - Canada KW - Automobile industry and trade KW - Management KW - Syndicats KW - Automobile, Travailleurs de l' KW - �Etats-Unis KW - Automobiles KW - Industrie et commerce KW - Gestion KW - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS KW - Labor KW - bisacsh KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE KW - Labor & Industrial Relations KW - Gewerkschaft KW - gnd KW - Krise KW - Kraftfahrzeugindustrie KW - Lean Production KW - Business & Economics KW - hilcc KW - Labor & Workers' Economics KW - Kanada KW - USA KW - swd KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-235) and index; Introduction: Building other people's cars: organized labor and the crisis of Fordism / Ernest J. Yanarella and William C. Green -- Part I: The crisis of Fordism -- Theoretical, legal, and strategic challenges for organized labor -- Lean production, labor control, and post-Fordism in the Japanese automobile industry / Carl H.A. Dassbach -- The UAW and CAW under the shadow of post-Fordism: a tale of two unions / Ernest J. Yanarella -- Part II: The crisis of Fordism on the shop floor: four case studies -- The myth of egalitarianism: worker response to post-Fordism at Subaru-Isuzu / Laurie Graham -- UAW, lean production, and labor-management relations at AutoAlliance / Steve Babson -- CAW, worker commitment, and labor-management relations under lean production at CAMI / James Rinehart, David Robertson, Christopher Huxley, and the CAW research team at CAMI -- Worker training at Toyota and Saturn: hegemony begins in the training center classroom / Ernest J. Yanarella -- Part III: Beyond the crisis of Fordism: the role of organized labor -- The transformation of the NLRA paradigm: the future of labor-management relations in post-Fordist auto plants / William C. Green -- New dimensions for labor in a post-Fordist world / Donald M. Wells; Electronic reproduction; [Place of publication not identified]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2011 N2 - In this edited volume, U.S. and Canadian political scientists, sociologists, and labor educators contribute to the debate of the crisis of the Fordist regime of mass production and its implications for organized labor. They present the first comparative cross-national study of the labor relations in Japanese North American automobile transplant. Japanese joint ventures with the Big Three automakers, and Japanese-style General Motors auto plants. They specifically focus on the challenges the Japanese lean production model has posed to North American auto labor's organizing, collective bargaining, and shop floor representation experiences and how the United Auto Workers and the Canadian Auto Workers have responded to these challenges; The authors point to the pressing need for the North American labor movement, whose legal rights are rooted in a mass production regime, to rethink its interests and goals if it is successfully confront the formidable obstacles presented by a changing international and hemispheric political economy increasing dominated by Japanese lean production practices UR - https://libproxy.firstcity.edu.my:8443/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=5228 ER -