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This chapter analyzes the relationships between management and employees in the Irish electronics industry. It is based on case-studies of two electronics factories, both of which are wholly-owned subsidiaries of US corporations and both of which employ predominantly female assembly workers.1
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Murray, P., Wickham, J. (1985). Women Workers and Bureaucratic Control in Irish Electronics Factories. In: Newby, H., Bujra, J., Littlewood, P., Rees, G., Rees, T.L. (eds) Restructuring Capital. Explorations in Sociology. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-18088-2_8
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