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...life may be reinventing itself along more local and congenial lines. Unprecedented cooperation between business and unions, fostered by nine years of Labor Party government, has led to a sharp drop in industrial unrest and, more important, to dramatic changes in factory organization. When Joe Cummaudo started work in Ford's plastics plant in Melbourne in 1983, he recalls, workers and bosses ate in different canteens and management policy was "like handing out the strap back in school." Since the introduction in 1986 of an employee-involvement plan, Cummaudo says, he and fellow workers have thrived on the chance...
...Much of the change in industrial culture -- a rejection of inherited British class-based divisions between managers and workers -- is driven by the great economic power shift of the late 20th century: the rise of Asia. In the 1980s the bosses of Ford in Detroit acknowledged that the Japanese were better at making cars than they were -- and proceeded to remake their company, in part by using Japanese methods. The new forms of organization at Cummaudo's Ford Australia are the result...
Until battery technology improves dramatically, however, electric cars will continue to occupy the smallest of market niches. So Chrysler, Ford and GM are pooling their resources with government approval in a $260 million research effort to achieve a battery breakthrough. Some of the impetus comes from a deadline set by California: as of 2003, the state will require 10% of the new cars sold there each year to be emission-free...
...Ford did its share to reduce smog in the Golden State as it unveiled two models that will exceed the first stage of the state's stringent new clean-air code. By improving the catalytic converters in their subcompacts, Ford beat the clock on the tougher standards by four years. Research also continues on vehicles fueled by natural gas and flexible mixtures of up to 85% methanol and gasoline. As a result, car buyers are soon going to face choices much more complicated than merely deciding whether to buy their favorite sedan in green...
Liam T.A. Ford '92 and Matthew J. McDonald '92 of The Crimson (and Peninsula) similarly cast aside Take Back the Night because of what they call the "bizzare political agenda"--equal rights and safety from violence against women--of its female organizers. The editors deride the organizers of the event for not subscribing to a policy of "ideological neutrality"--a policy which Jessye E. Lapenn '93 and Heidi I. Siedlecki '93 rightly termed "both impossible and oxymoronic" in their letter to The Crimson published yesterday...