British Factory-Japanese Factory: The Origins of National Diversity in Industrial Relations, With a New Afterword

The Japanese way of work is notoriously 'different.' But is it Japan or Britain which is the odd man out? This is the first book to explore the real differences, not by contrasting Japanese employment relations with a hazy ideal image of 'the West,” but through a point-by-point comparison of two Japanese factories with two British ones making similar products.

In the first half of the book this comparison is pursued in systematic detail and with vivid illustrations of the attitudes and assum...