Work practice barriers to flexible manufacturing in the US and the UK
- 1 March 1992
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in New Technology, Work and Employment
- Vol. 7 (1) , 3-14
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-005x.1992.tb00016.x
Abstract
Work practice barriers to flexible manufacturing are studied in the British and American unionized engineering industries and a comparison made of the influence of the industrial relations systems on the potential for overcoming these barriers.Keywords
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