Bureaucracy transcended? New patterns of employment regulation and labour control in the international automotive industry

New Technology, Work and Employment

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 90-106

  Pulignano, Valeria ^a,b   Stewart, Paul ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY; BUREAUCRACY; LABOR POLICY;

EID: 33745819181     PISSN: 02681072     EISSN: 1468005X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-005X.2006.00166.x     Document Type: Article

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