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Japan's California Factories: Labor Relations and Economic Globalization.
This slender book improves our understanding of Japanese direct investment (JDI) in the United States, especially in California: causes, history, size, locational and industrial patterns, management practices and attitudes toward unions. Japanese-owned firms employ 500,000 American workers, of whom 100,000 are in California; of these, 20,000 are manufacturing workers.
Japan's California Factories's original contribution is its analysis of the management practices of the 66 Japanese-owned manufacturing plants in California, which employed 100 or more workers in 1989. Much to Ruth Milkman's surprise, the so-called "Japanese" management model of work organization (improved …
