The Volvo Experience: Alternatives to Lean Production in the Swedish Auto Industry

The assembly-line regime and the Volvo trajectory the evolution and transplantation of Toyotism the Swedish automotive industry - small-scale car-makers, global truck producers pressures for change - the labour market and trade unions organizational and technical design of Swedish automotive assembly competitive "craft work" in two bus plants pioneers in car and truck assembly - Volvo Kalmar and Volvo LB innovations in Uddevalla, stalemate in Gothenburg methodological problems in comparing working conditions the degrading monotony of the assembly line assembly designs and working conditions - five-plant comparison shop-floor power and the dynamics of group work toward post-lean production.