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Labor-Management Relations in the Japanese Consumer Electronics Maquiladoras in Mexico

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ID2363231
AutoresMartin Kenney (0000-0001-5093-917X, University of California, Davis, autor correspondente), W Richard Goe (Kansas State University), Oscar F Contreras (El Colegio de Sonora), Oscar Contreras (El Colegio de Sonora), Jairo Romero (University of California, Davis), Mauricio Bustos (Centro de Essenaza Tecnica y Superior, Mexicali)
Ano1998
Volume25
Fascículo3
Páginas269-304
Data de publicação1998-08-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoWork and Occupations (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0730-8884 • E-ISSN: 1552-8464
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0730888498025003002
OpenAlexW2002551511
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas12
Referências citadas19

This article compares and contrasts the labor-management practices of Japanese consumer electronics maquiladoras in Mexico with those of consumer electronics factories in Japan and assesses the extent to which the labor-management practices of Japanese factories have been transferred to maquiladoras in Mexico. An idealized model of the labor-management system employed in Japanese factories in the consumer electronics sector is delineated from the available research literature. Data on labor-management practices of the Japanese consumer electronics maquiladoras are derived from personal interviews with 75 Mexican production workers. The findings suggest that the consumer electronics maquiladoras in Mexico are using a hybrid labor-management system that is similar to but differs in important ways from the system used in consumer electronics factories in Japan

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