The New Production Model: Myth and Reality of the New Employment Relation

Gian Carlo Cainarca and Francesca Sgobbi

Industrial and Corporate Change, 1998, vol. 7, issue 3, 557-80

Abstract: The paper presents a framework which connects the changing nature of the employment relation to the evolution of the labour-technology relationship, whose terms both present a dual nature. The duality of technology results from its being both a production and an information and coordination tool. In turn, the duality of labour arises from recognizing a double role for the workforce: as a supplier of standardized effort (job), and as a source of continuous improvement of products and processes (work). The paper explores the conditions which allow an efficient transaction of work within the organization and shows how the conceptual opposition between job and work proves to be useful for reading the 'successful' shift to lean production models by Japanese and Western companies. Copyright 1998 by Oxford University Press.

Date: 1998
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