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This book is an important and original account of life in the new lean production workplace - the car industry where it all began. It brings together the two emblematic features of the twentieth century: a working class meant to topple the social order, and a product that largely provided the developmental model of that same order. This book is neither a retrospective assessment nor a prediction for the future: it reveals what has changed and what has remained the same, in a workplace that remains a major part of the makeup of our society.
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This is an outstanding study of 'life on the line' at the trim and final assembly shops of Peugeot's Sochaux complex, 'the biggest factory in France'. The author's central concern is to understand and analyse the changes that have been wrought in persuit of lean production, but they emphasize the complex and contested character of these developments.
About the authors
JEAN-PIERRE DURAND is Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Centre de Recerches Pierre Naville at the University of Paris - Evry. He is the co-author of After Fordism (1997), with Robert Boyer and is a member of the International Steering Committee of GERPISA.
NICOLAS HATZFELD is a labour historian and worked on the Peugeot line for two years (1998-99).
NICOLAS HATZFELD is a labour historian and worked on the Peugeot line for two years (1998-99).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Living Labour
Book Subtitle: Life on the line at Peugeot France
Authors: Jean-Pierre Durand, Nicolas Hatzfeld
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230001121
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Business & Management Collection, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2003
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-0406-5Published: 24 January 2003
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-50922-5Published: 01 January 2003
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-00112-1Published: 24 January 2003
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 278
Topics: Human Resource Management, Economic History, Industries, Labor Economics