[lbo-talk] Junkyard dog hits Motown

[Jim Straub]

>
> 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.