Learning factories or reproduction factories? Labor-management relations in the Japanese consumer electronics maquiladoras in Mexico

Work and Occupations

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 269-304

  Kenney, Martin ^a   Goe, W Richard ^c   Contreras, Oscar ^c   Romero, Jairo ^a   Bustos, Mauricio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Ctro de Essenaza Tecnica y Superior   (Mexico)

^c NONE

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EID: 0032380181     PISSN: 07308884     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0730888498025003002     Document Type: Article

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