Reconciling Automation and Flexibility? Technology and Production in the Postwar British Motor Vehicle Industry

Enterprise and Society

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 9-62

  Zeitlin, Jonathan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

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EID: 0038671929     PISSN: 14672227     EISSN: 14672235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1467222700015597     Document Type: Article

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