Description
This book explores the history and global expansion of AB Volvo, one of the hundred largest corporations in the world, through the experiences of its workers in Sweden, Mexico, South Africa, and India. It investigates how neo-liberalisation has transformed the company into a promoter of lean production, at the expense of the workers’ needs. Nora Rthzel, Diana Mulinari and Aina Tollefsen PART I: THEORIES AND HISTORIES OF LABOUR 1. In Search of Labour in Labour Studies 2. Production Processes in a Globalising World 3. Qualitative Methods: What We Did and How We Did It PART II: ENTERING THE FACTORY GATES 4. Locating Volvo: Four Plants, Four Places, Four Histories 5. Regimes of representation: Trade Unions in Sweden and Mexico PART III: SUBJECTIVITIES AT WORK 6. Men’s Jobs – Women’s Work: Women as Industrial Workers 7. Three Gender Regimes – Gender Relations at Work 8. Constructing the Volvo Family. The West and the Rest 9. Production Regimes – Producer’s Pride 10. Women’s Pride as Producers 11. The Wage Labourer’s Discontent Epilogue
