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Bureaucracy transcended? New patterns of employment regulation and labour control in the international automotive industry
Author(s) -
Pulignano Valeria,
Stewart Paul
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
new technology, work and employment
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.889
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1468-005X
pISSN - 0268-1072
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-005x.2006.00166.x
Subject(s) - bureaucracy , automotive industry , control (management) , work (physics) , business , industrial organization , political science , economics , engineering , management , law , mechanical engineering , aerospace engineering , politics
Contemporary changes in patterns of work and management are alleged to have given rise to the post‐modern organisation and the diminishing importance of traditional bureaucracy. This paper is concerned with the changing nature of labour control in new ‘multi‐enterprise’ settings in the international automotive sector. Rather than eliminating bureaucracy, the tools of industrial bureaucracy are becoming more sophisticated.