Introduction: Beyond the Assembly-Line

Erol Kahveci and Theo Nichols
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Erol Kahveci: Cardiff University
Theo Nichols: Cardiff University

Chapter 1 in The Other Car Workers, 2006, pp 1-11 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract In his 1936 film Modern Times Charlie Chaplin plays a shipyard worker, a department store night watchman, a singing waiter and a prisoner — but it is the idea of the assembly-line worker struggling against the dehumanising effects of the machine that most people probably remember. For much of the post-war period, this idea was captured in the social sciences by two concepts above all others: ‘alienation’ and ‘Fordism’. It might well be claimed that this is what the leading and most-read works of industrial sociology used to be about.

Keywords: Social Science Literature; Lean Production; Maritime Industry; Lean Production System; Shipyard Worker (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230209381_1

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