Lean and White-Collar Work: Towards New Forms of Industrialisation of Knowledge Work and Office Jobs?

After revolutionising manufacturing in the 1980s, the ideas of lean production are becoming increasingly significant for today’s white-collar work. Drawing on extensive empirical fieldwork, this article shows the fundamental changes in knowledge and office work as a result of new lean concepts. Two...

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Main Author: Tobias Kaempf
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: tripleC 2018-11-01
Series:tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique
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Online Access:https://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/1048