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[PEN-L:1743] Re: flexible specialisation and lean production

>Tony:
>
>For an account of "lean production" in the world automobile industry, see:
>
>-- James P. Womack, Daniel T. Jones & Daniel Roos _The Machine that
>Changed the World_, NY, Rawson Associates, 1990  (this work is based on
>the MIT multi-year study on "The Future of the Automobile").
>
For a critique of lean production as well as a fairly extensive
bibliography, see, Dassbach, Carl H.A. "The Japanese World of Work and North
American Factories" CRITICAL SOCIOLOGY,  20, 1, 1993-1994, 3-30.
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