Is Industry 4.0 a Good Fit for High Performance Work Systems? Trade Unions and Workplace Change in the Southern Ontario Automotive Assembly Sector.

In this article, we analyze the union's role in the adoption of High Performance Work Systems (HPWS) and in the first stages of Industry 4.0 deployment in Canadian automotive assembly plants. We argue two main points: studies of Industry 4.0 cannot ignore the importance of employment relations in te...

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Publicado en:Industrial Relations / Relations Industrielles Vol. 75; no. 4; pp. 751 - 774
Autores principales: Rutherford, Tod D., Frangi, Lorenzo
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Universite Laval, Department of Industrial Relations Fall2020
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          Professor, Department of Geography, Syracuse University, The Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse, New York, United States
          Associate Professor, Department of Organization and Human Resources, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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          Instruments and Related Products Manufacturing for Measuring, Displaying, and Controlling Industrial Process Variables
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      ab: In this article, we analyze the union's role in the adoption of High Performance Work Systems (HPWS) and in the first stages of Industry 4.0 deployment in Canadian automotive assembly plants. We argue two main points: studies of Industry 4.0 cannot ignore the importance of employment relations in technological adoption; and Industry 4.0 is embedded in HPWS, which in some cases unions have played a significant role in shaping, if not 'hybridizing.' We address these points through a critical literature review and 18 interviews with key UNIFOR union representatives and managers in five Canadian assembly plants. Our analytical contribution is to provide a richer framework for understanding how employment relations and especially unions have been significant sources of variation in HPWS and how this factor contributes to the workplace integration of Industry 4.0.
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