Global management, local labour Turkish workers and modern industry /

'This book offers penetrating insight into both the benefits and problems of paid work in modern manufacturing in the South. More particularly, it provides the first systematic account of workers' lives in the new Turkey, based on rich case studies of how workers get work, feel about work,...

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Main Authors: Nichols, Theo, 1939
Group Author: Sugur, Nadir
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Literature type: Electronic Software eBook
Language: English
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Online Access: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230504578
Summary: 'This book offers penetrating insight into both the benefits and problems of paid work in modern manufacturing in the South. More particularly, it provides the first systematic account of workers' lives in the new Turkey, based on rich case studies of how workers get work, feel about work, operate under modern management methods and deal with local conditions, such as repressive trade unionism. This is highly readable, painstakingly researched and strongly recommended book for all those who want to know how working lives in the new manufacturing are being remade on the global assembly line.'
Item Description: Ebook.
Originally published in: 2004.
Carrier Form: 232 p.
ISBN: 9781403917508
9780230504578 :
0230504574 :
CLC: F744-61
Contents: Introduction PART 1: HELLO TO THE FACTORY A General Account PART 2: SPECIFICITIES: GENDER AND ETHNICITY Women Workers in Textiles Muhacir Bulgarians PART 3: THE WORLD OF TQM Management and its Practices TQM from Above The View from Below PART 4: TRADE UNIONISM State, Law and Trade Unionism Union Autocracy, Mechanisms and Contradictions PART 5: SIGNS OF CHANGE Modernity and Younger Workers The Future of Workers in the Modern Sector.