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Reviving resistance: the Japanese factory floor in Britain
Author(s) -
Palmer Gerry
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
industrial relations journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.525
H-Index - 3
eISSN - 1468-2338
pISSN - 0019-8692
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-2338.1996.tb00763.x
Subject(s) - factory (object oriented programming) , resistance (ecology) , control (management) , business , operations management , labour economics , management , industrial organization , economics , computer science , ecology , programming language , biology
Studies of British‐based Japanese manufacturing companies often assume an absence of worker resistance stemming either from high levels of employee commitment or from extensive control systems. This article, based on three case studies of Japanese manufacturing transplants, disputes this assumption, arguing that the control of labour continues to pose a challenge to management