Living Labour. Life on the line at Peugeot France
Résumé
This book is an important and original account of life in the new lean production workplace – the car industry, where it all began. It brings together the two emblematic features of the twentieth century: a working class supposed to have toppled the social order, and a product that largely provided the developmental model of that same order.
The authors discuss why workers accept these difficult jobs and how they can obtain satisfaction trom them. The book offers an important insight into the social context in which human ressource management practices are applied, negotiated and contested in a workplace that remains a major part of the makeup of our society.