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http://dspace.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/20114| Title: | Strikes, Scabs and Tread Separations: Labor Strife and the Production of Defective Bridgestone/Firestone Tires |
| Keywords: | M5 J5 M1 ddc:330 labor relations product quality Bridgestone/Firestone strike Arbeitsbeziehungen Produktqualität Arbeitsbedingungen Arbeitszufriedenheit Theorie Reifenindustrie Vereinigte Staaten |
| Issue Date: | 16-Oct-2013 |
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| Description: | This paper provides a case study of the effect of labor relations on product quality. We consider whether a long, contentious strike and the hiring of replacement workers at Bridgestone/Firestone?s Decatur plant in the mid-1990s contributed to the production of defective tires. Using several independent data sources, and looking before and after the strike and across plants, we find that labor strife at the Decatur plant closely coincided with lower product quality. Monthly data suggest that defects were particularly high around the time concessions were demanded and when large numbers of replacement workers and returning strikers worked side by side. |
| URI: | http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/20114 |
| Other Identifiers: | http://hdl.handle.net/10419/20114 ppn:371068622 |
| Appears in Collections: | EconStor |
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