TY - BOOK ID - 77893488 TI - North American auto unions in crisis : lean production as contested terrain AU - Green, William C. AU - Yanarella, Ernest J. PY - 1996 SN - 058504290X 9780585042909 0791428230 0791428249 9780791428238 9780791428245 1438404743 PB - Albany : State University of New York Press, DB - UniCat KW - Automobile industry workers KW - Automobile industry and trade KW - Business & Economics KW - Labor & Workers' Economics KW - Automotive industry KW - Motor vehicle industry KW - Auto workers KW - Automobile construction workers KW - Automobile workers KW - Employees KW - Labor unions KW - Management. KW - Management KW - International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America. KW - CAW-Canada. KW - Unifor (Labor union) KW - Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada KW - Canadian Auto Workers KW - Canadian Automobile Workers KW - CAW-Canada (CLC) KW - CAW KW - National Automobile, Aerospace, and Agricultural Implement Workers Union of Canada KW - TCA-Canada KW - International Union, United Automobile, Aircraft, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America KW - U.A.W. KW - UAW KW - United Automobile Workers of America KW - United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America KW - E-books KW - U.A.W. (United Automobile, Aerospace, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America) KW - UAW (United Automobile, Aerospace, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77893488 AB - 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. ER -