Explores the changing nature of the relationship between buyers and suppliers in the UK automotive industry, using research evidence from two major companies in this sector, Nissan and Lucas Industries, and incorporates these changes into wider debates on the social relations of production and...

The 1980s have witnessed a marked divergence in the economic and industrial relations development in the North American auto‐industry. It is argued that important links exist between industrial relations and the wider patterns of uneven development in the North American auto‐industry. The...