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Assembling work; remaking factory regimes in Japanese multinationals in Britain.


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Assembling work; remaking re·make  
tr.v. re·made , re·mak·ing, re·makes
To make again or anew.

n.
1. The act of remaking.

2. Something in remade form, especially a new version of an earlier movie or song.
 factory regimes in Japanese multinationals in Britain.

Elger, Tony and Chris Smith Chris Smith is the name of:

In politics:
  • Chris Smith, Baron Smith of Finsbury (born 1951), former British Member of Parliament and government minister
  • Chris Smith (US politician) (born 1953), member of Congress from New Jersey
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    Oxford U. Press

    2005

    414 pages

    $99.50

    Hardcover

    HD2845

    Sociologists Elgar (U. of Warwick) and Smith (U. of London) augment the many studies of Japanese companies This is a list of companies from Japan. Note that 株式会社 can be (and frequently is) read both kabushiki kaisha and kabushiki gaisha (with or without a hyphen). See that article for more details.  in Japan and of companies elsewhere adopting and adapting Japanese practices, by focusing on subsidiaries of Japanese companies in Britain. They draw particularly on labor process analyses of the indeterminacy in·de·ter·mi·na·cy  
    n.
    The state or quality of being indeterminate.

    Noun 1. indeterminacy - the quality of being vague and poorly defined
    indefiniteness, indefinity, indeterminateness, indetermination
     of labor power and the active and contested construction of work regimes, and contemporary institutional analyses of the local and global context within which transnational firms operation. They are concerned with how the internal work and employment regimes relate both to wider corporate structures and policies and to local labor markets labor market A place where labor is exchanged for wages; an LM is defined by geography, education and technical expertise, occupation, licensure or certification requirements, and job experience , local state policies, and national institutional arrangements.

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