Implications of Just-in-Time Production for Union Strategy: Lessons from the 1998 General Motors-United Auto Workers Dispute
Implications of Just-in-Time Production for Union Strategy: Lessons from the 1998 General Motors-United Auto Workers Dispute
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准时化生产对工会战略的影响：1998 年通用汽车与汽车工人联合会纠纷的教训
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2001
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A. Herod
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本文分析了1998年通用汽车和美国汽车工人联合会争端的空间和时间动态，以研究“精益”生产方法对有组织的劳工可能产生的影响。虽然许多关于新形式的生产组织的文章倾向于将这种发展视为“非此即彼”--要么是对工作场所工会的攻击，要么是通过团队合作和对工作内容的更大控制为工人提供赋权的机会--但在本文中，我认为，在精益生产下，工人和雇主之间的权力关系在不同的地理范围内以相互矛盾的方式重新塑造。具体来说，虽然精益生产可能确实代表了对工人在车间规模上传统做事方式的攻击，但作为资本主义“倾斜”的一部分，及时生产方法的引入可能会在工厂间关系的规模上为工会提供新的可能性，以便在与雇主的关系中加以利用。在这个...
This paper analyzes the spatial and temporal dynamics of the 1998 General Motors-United Auto Workers dispute to examine what implications ‘lean’ production methods may have for organized labor. Whereas much writing on new forms of production organization has tended to see such developments in ‘either/ or’ terms — either as an attack on unions in the workplace, or as offering workers an opportunity for empowerment through teamwork and greater control over job content — in this paper, I argue that, under lean production, the power relations between workers and employers are being refashioned in contradictory ways at different geographic scales. Specifically, while lean production may indeed represent an attack on workers’ traditional ways of doing things at the scale of the shopfloor, the introduction of Just-in-Time production methods as part of the ‘leaning’ of capitalism may present new possibilities at the scale of interplant relations for unions to exploit in their relationship with employers. In this ...