"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'.

Research on organisational learning is limited in three ways; in terms of the type of organisation and the type of employees which are seen to benefit from a learning culture; and in terms of the consensual assumptions made about the nature of learning within the workplace, assumptions which...