The Evolution of Blue-Collar Work in the Fiat Factories. On "The Car Profession" Research

Guglielmo Meardi

doi:10.6092/issn.1971-8853/11294

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Guglielmo Meardi Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, Scuola Normale Superiore, Florence http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9132-3179
Guglielmo Meardi is Professor of Economic Sociology in the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences of Scuola Normale Superiore, Florence. He taught for twenty years at the University of Warwick, UK, where he was, between 2012 and 2019, Professor of Industrial Relations and Director of the Industrial Relations Research Unit. His Trade Union Activists, East and West (2000) compared trade unions in the Italian and Polish FIAT plants.

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https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.1971-8853/11294

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Work Organization, Automotive Industry, Toyotism, Fordism, Labour Movement, Resistance

Abstract

This comment reflects on "The Car Profession" research on the background of previous sociological investigations on Fiat factories and with references to parallel international debates. By looking at the historical, industrial relations and organizational aspects, it frames the question of why labour at Fiat appeared more successful in the "domestication" of Fordism than in that of post-Fordism, and outlines some avenues for further research on this question.

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