North American Auto Unions in Crisis - Lean Production as Contested Terrain

This edited volume provides the first comparative cross-national study of U.S. and Canadian Labor relations in Japanese North American auto transplants, Japanese joint ventures with the Big Three automakers, and Saturn, the Japanese-style GM auto plant.

About the author

William C. Green is Professor of Government at Morehead State University. He is coeditor (with Ernest J. Yanarella) of The Unfulfilled Promise of Synthetic Fuels: Technological Failure, Policy Immobilism, or Commercial Illusion and The Politics of Industrial Recruitment: Japanese Automobile Investment and Economic Development in the American States. Ernest J. Yanarella is Professor of Political Science and Director of Graduate Studies at the University of Kentucky. He is author of The Missile Defense Controversy: Strategy, Technology, and Politics, 1955-1972; co-author (with Ann-Marie Yanarella) of Energy and the Social Sciences: A Bibliographical Guide to the Literature; and co-editor (with Randal H. Ihara) of The Acid Rain Debate: Scientific, Economic, and Political Dimensions; and (with Lee Sigelman) of Political Mythology and Popular Fiction.

Product details

• Assisted by: William C Green (Editor), William C. Green (Editor), Ernest J Yanarella (Editor), Ernest J. Yanarella (Editor)
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.02.1996
• EAN: 9780791428238
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-2823-8
• No. of pages: 246
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 517 g
• Series: Suny Series in New Directions; Suny the Sociology of Work and
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General