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Article: Just Another Car Factory? Lean Production and Its Discontents.
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- Industrial and Labor Relations Review
- Article date:
- April 1, 1998
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Since MIT's $5 million project on the car industry was completed in 1990, Krafcik's "lean production" - an Americanized version of Ohno's "Toyota Production System" (Toyota Production System: Beyond Large-Scale Production, 1988) - has been debated by scholars around the world. Rinehart, Huxley, and Robertson's book is a valuable, well-written, and informed contribution to this debate. Avoiding MIT's tendency to over-simplify and over-generalize (Womack, The Machine That Changed the World, 1990), the authors examine only one plant: CAMI, a General Motors-Suzuki greenfield site in Canada. Like Williams's "Against Lean Production" (Economy and Society, Vol. 21, No. 3, 1992), ...
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