Over the past three decades, all three German automobile producers (BMW, Daimler, and Volkswagen) have built production facilities in the United States. Despite the similarities among the firms when it comes to collective employee representation in Germany, the employee-relations practices of...

Introduction -- The Japanese advantage: flexible production and innovation -- Flexible production in the early U.S. auto industry -- Class conflict and the impetus to abandon flexible production -- The dire consequences of abandoning flexible production -- The Japanese counterfactual:...

Chapter 1. Introduction: What is Concession Bargaining? -- Chapter 2. The World of Concession Bargaining -- Chapter 3. The First Wave: Concession Bargaining in the 1980s -- Chapter 4. The Second Wave: The Ultra-Concession Bargaining of the Past Decade -- Chapter 5. The Message Behind the New...

Achievements and problems in American work organizational reform: a case study of the automobile industry -- The development of seniority rights and establishment of rules for job transfer and promotion in the US: General Motors Corporation -- Work organization reform until 2009: Plant A of...

From Chinese factories making cheap toys for export, to sweatshops in Bangladesh where name-brand garments are sewn—studies on the impact of globalization on workers have tended to focus on the worst jobs and the worst conditions. But in When Good Jobs Go Bad, Jeffrey Rothstein looks at the...