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Examines the Toyota team culture as a conceptual framework and uses it to discuss related topics, such as workplace injuries, the implications of alienating assembly workers, and the role of women.

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This is a very good organizational analysis of a Japanese transplant. The author exposes many of the problems involved in the lean production system and presents aspects that have, as yet, not been sufficiently analyzed. By doing so, she poses good questions concerning American managers' experience with lean production. Although many of her findings are supported in other publications, hers is the best organizational analysis I have read. Anyone interested in labor relations, the auto industry, sociology of work, and Japanese management will find this book fascinating. -- Laurie Graham, Indiana University

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Terry L. Besser is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Iowa State University.

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