The end of the end of good work? Work organization or lean production in the Volvo organization

This ebook reviews and evaluates some explicit reasons given for the return to the assembly line.

It considers whether the decisions to replace alternative assembly systems with assembly lines may have been driven by other factors and mechanisms than those implicit in these arguments and, if so, what other factors could explain their reintroduction.

There is also a discussion of which dimensions that should be taken into account when choosing between alternative assembly systems and assembly lines and empirical data are used to shed more light on the issues discussed in the article.