Broken networks and a tabula rasa?: ‘Lean production’, employment and the privatisation of the east german automobile industry1

Work, Employment and Transition: Restructuring Livelihoods in Post-Communism

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 74-96

  Swain, Adam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 33748473290     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203994351-13     Document Type: Chapter

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