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Flexible manufacturing systems in Britain and the USA |
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| Authors: | Bryn Jones Peter Scott |
| Affiliation: | Bryn Jones is Lecturer in Sociology at Bath University and Peter Scott recently completed a doctoral thesis in the School of Humanities at Bath University. |
| Abstract: | Comparing a British with an American Flexible Manufacturing System highlights both differences in de facto and formal work organisation and the separate influence of overall management policies. Contrary to prevailing theories it is the practical resolution of these policies that either stifles or permits polyvalent, 'autonomous'work-groups. |
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