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This comprehensive study examines how Japanese-style management practices transformed workplace relations in Britain during the 1990s. The book analyzes lean production, teamworking, kaizen continuous improvement methods, and business unionism across 15 Japanese transplants in South Wales, providing an in-depth exploration of labour process organization and employment relations. Through detailed shop-floor observations and worker accounts, the text reveals the real impact of management restructuring on individual workers and collective labour organization. Ideal for business historians, labour relations scholars, and anyone interested in understanding how global manufacturing practices reshaped British industrial culture and working conditions during this pivotal economic period.

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Explores Japanese management techniques including lean production and kaizen continuous improvement methods applied to British factory workers.

Examines employment relations and labour organization across 15 Japanese transplants located in South Wales during the 1990s.

Provides shop-floor observations and worker perspectives on workplace restructuring and its effects on individual and collective labour groups.

Part of the Routledge Studies in Employment and Work Relations in Context series, offering academic rigour for business and economic history research.

Analyses the impact of teamworking and business unionism models on British industrial relations and factory culture.

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hardcover
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Amazon UK
Release Date
18 December 1998
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14 February 2007

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