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Group Working at Volkswagen: An Issue for Negotiation between Trade Unions and Management

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Teamwork in the Automobile Industry

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Translator’s note: In the British motor industry the terms’ supervisor’ and ‘foreman’ are used interchangeably. In this text the French word maitrise and the German Meister have been translated, variously, as ‘supervision’, ‘supervisory staff’ and ‘supervisors’.

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  1. Anne Labit
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. University of Paris-Evry, France

    Jean-Pierre Durand (Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Centre de Recerches Pierre Naville) (Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Centre de Recerches Pierre Naville)

  2. University of Wales, Cardiff, UK

    Paul Stewart (Research Fellow in the Sociology of Work and Employment) (Research Fellow in the Sociology of Work and Employment)

  3. University Complutense Madrid, Spain

    Juan José Castillo (Professor of Sociology of Work) (Professor of Sociology of Work)

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© 1999 Jean-Pierre Durand, Paul Stewart and Juan José Castillo

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Labit, A. (1999). Group Working at Volkswagen: An Issue for Negotiation between Trade Unions and Management. In: Durand, JP., Stewart, P., Castillo, J.J. (eds) Teamwork in the Automobile Industry. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-14933-9_18

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