Flexible manufacturing systems in Britain and the USA
New Technology Work and EmploymentPublished 1 March 1987
Bryn Jones, Peter Scott
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Comparing a British with an American Flexible Manufacturing System highlights both differences in de facto and formal work organisation and the separate influence of overall management policies. Contrary to prevailing theories it is the practical resolution of these policies that either stifles or permits polyvalent, ‘autonomous’work‐groups.
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