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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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Published in:Industrial Relations / Relations Industrielles Vol. 75; no. 4; pp. 751 - 774
Main Authors: Rutherford, Tod D., Frangi, Lorenzo
Format: Article
Published: Universite Laval, Department of Industrial Relations Fall2020
Subjects:
Labor unions
Industry 4.0
High performance computing
Assembly line methods
Manufacturing processes
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