Employment Relations & Rights in the Global Automotive Industry
Published: 2010
Author(s) Name: Russell D. Lansbury& Nick Wailes
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Abstract
This paper reports the preliminary
findings of a study of employment
relations in the automotive assembly
industry in seven countries. It
provides evidence that the impact
of globalisation on employment relations
varies systematically across
liberal, coordinated and, to a lesser
extent, Asian market economies. It
also provides evidence of considerable
diversity within varieties of
capitalism. This suggests that while
national institutional arrangements
are important, managers and
workers also influence how individual
companies in the auto industry
respond to the challenges posed
by globalisation. There is also potential
for the ILO to play a more
significant role in mediating the
effects of globalization on employment
relations in the automotive
industry, particularly in the newly
industrialising economies in Asia.
Keywords : Effects of globalization , Employment relations, Automotive industry
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