[lbo-talk] Junkyard dog hits Motown

Jim Straub rustbeltjacobin at gmail.com
Wed May 16 22:02:08 PDT 2007



>
> FWIW, about a month ago, I put this question to an industrial engineer
> who works for a company that produces parts for American and Japanese
> automakers. He said the culture on the assembly lines in the American
> automotive plants is totally different from the Japanese automotive
> plants. The Japanese plants (i.e. those plants run by Toyota, Honda,
> etc. but not necessarily located in Japan), he said, have carefully
> choreographed every movement the worker makes. There's nothing
> extraneous (no extra tools, etc.) -- every move the worker does has
> been carefully studied and pre-planned.

????? Taylorism has been around for 100 years.



More information about the lbo-talk mailing list