Technology and Social Structure in a Japanese Automobile Factory
- 1 November 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Sociology of Work and Occupations
- Vol. 4 (4) , 397-426
- https://doi.org/10.1177/003803857700400402
Abstract
The present research investigates the ways in which the Japanese-factory social structure mitigates the alienating effects of auto-assembly technology. The Japanese employee enjoys dual work roles; as an assembler and as a member of the company community. Because these roles are insulatedfrom one another, his negative reaction to the immediate job fails to contaminate his relationship with the enterprise, which he experiences primarily as a member of its community.Keywords
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