Working for the Japanese : Inside Mazda's American Auto Plant. [A worker; The Union's chance; Groundbreaking; A Third-culture plant; A special work force; Learning to think Japanese; Working together; Exit interviews; Long hot summer; etc]
by Fucini, Joseph J. ; Fucini, Suzy
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New York : Free Press ; London : Collier Macmillan, 1990., 1990. Very Good. [1st edition], 1st printing ; viii, 258 p. ; 25 cm. ; ISBN: 0029109310 :; 9780029109311 LCCN: 90-34249 ; OCLC: 21331082 ; LC: HD9710.U54; Dewey: 331.25 ; blue cloth with silver lettering, in color pictorial dustjacket ; ex-library, labels, stamps ; "For three years, the Funicis followed events at the plant, interviewing more than one hundred workers, managers, and outside suppliers...American workers often found themselves unprepared to meet the physical and emotional demands of a job at a Japanese plant, where employees were routinely required to work overtime with virtually no advance notice, and where they were often pressured to forego scheduled vacations to help management meet its production goals. Mazda's insistence on maintaining its torrid production pace also contributed to an alarmingly high injury rate at the plant." ; VG/VG
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- Working for the Japanese : Inside Mazda's American Auto Plant. [A worker; The Union's chance; Groundbreaking; A Third-culture plant; A special work force; Learning to think Japanese; Working together; Exit interviews; Long hot summer; etc]
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- Fucini, Joseph J. ; Fucini, Suzy
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- New York : Free Press ; London : Collier Macmillan, 1990.
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- 1990
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- japanese mazda motors america personnel management employees reslations culture difference auto absenteeism barrow clisthenics chrysler defects drudi ford general motors honda healy judson keeling phil nobuto osamu toyota uaw workers third safety
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