This work focuses on the Asian and small-firm-dominated West Midlands clothing industry. It explores the reality of life on the shop-floor for many managers and workers engaged in a neglected, but crucial, part of the small-firm sector. "Managing to Survive" combines a portrait of a distinctive sector with analysis which uses a year-long case study of three firms in the West Midlands to address wider debates. These include the regulation of the workplace, the role of management in handling uncertainty and the place of ...
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This work focuses on the Asian and small-firm-dominated West Midlands clothing industry. It explores the reality of life on the shop-floor for many managers and workers engaged in a neglected, but crucial, part of the small-firm sector. "Managing to Survive" combines a portrait of a distinctive sector with analysis which uses a year-long case study of three firms in the West Midlands to address wider debates. These include the regulation of the workplace, the role of management in handling uncertainty and the place of gender and ethnicity at work.
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