Labour in 'lean' times: Geography, scale and the national trajectories of workplace change

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 195-212

  Rutherford, Tod D ^a   Gertler, Meric S ^b  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Canada; Germany; Just in time; Labour; Lean; National; Production; Scale

Indexed keywords

PRODUCTION SYSTEM; TRADE UNION; WORKING CONDITIONS; WORKPLACE;

CANADA; GERMANY;

EID: 0036320311     PISSN: 00202754     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1475-5661.00049     Document Type: Article

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