Work and Employment Relations in the Automobile Industry

This book examines the form and character of the internationalisation of employee relations in the automobile industry. It goes on to examine the impact of the new forms of regionalization and their impact on employment relations within firms. Case studies are used to examine the transformation of employment standards, including General Motors, Toyota, Renault, FIAT and Peugeot. The book also assesses the significance of the emergence of regional integration processes in the form of regional economic spaces (EC, Nafta, Mercusor and ASEAN). JOSE RICARDO RAMALHO Professor of Sociology, Federal University of Rio de Janiero, Brazil MARCO AURELIO SANTANA Associate Professor of Sociology, Federal University of Rio de Janiero, Brazil LUIS PAOLO BRESCIANI Director for Economic Development, City Government at Santo Andre, Brazil RUY QUADROS Assistant Professor, Department of Science and Technology, Unicamp, Brazil LUIS ANTONIO CARDOSO Professor and Researcher, Rio de Janiero North State University, Brazil LUDGER PRIES Chair of Sociology of Organizations and Participation Studies, Department of Social Science, Ruhr-Universitat Bochum, Germany MYEONG-KEE CHUNG Professor of Economics, Hannam University, Korea ANDY DANFORD Employment Studies Research Unit, University of West of England VALERIA PULIGNANO Lecturer in Industrial Relations, University of Warwick Business School, UK UDO REHFELDT Researcher, Institut de Recherches Economiques et Sociales, Noisy-le-Grand, France YOLANDA MONTIEL Researcher, CIESAS, Mexico STEVE BABSON Professor of Labor Studies, Wayne State University WAYNE LEWCHUK Director, Labour Studies Program, McMaster University, Canada CHARLOTTE YATES Professor of Political Science and Labor Studies, Labour Studies Program, McMaster University, Canada MASAKI SARUTA Professor, Faculty of Management, Chukyo University, Japan