"This book traces how abstract managerial ideas about maximizing production flexibility and employee freedom were translated into concrete, day-to-day practices at the Motorola plant in East Kilbride, UK. Using eyewitness accounts, the book describes how employees dealt with the increased...

1. The will to empower : governing the workplace -- 2. Working for the Yankee dollar -- 3. Greenfield site, Greenfield labour? -- 4. 'Not just another number' : empowerment, discipline, and teamworking freedom -- 5. Confession, discipline, and freedom -- 6. 'Just like any other factory'.

"This book focuses on the concept and role of relational practices as a way to understand and study processes of organizing. Relational practices are conceived as an ongoing, everyday process resulting in more participative ways of organizing. Participative organizing works from and with the...