Word: saab
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Almost three-fifths of the foreign-car owners in the survey favored détente, but only one-third of the U.S.-auto owners did. Virtually all the Saab drivers-98%-voted for George McGovern in 1972; so did 82% of the Mercedes drivers, 80% of those with Volvos, 76% of the Porsche owners, 74% of the Volkswagen owners. By contrast, 49% of the professors with G.M. cars voted for Richard Nixon; he had been less favored by owners of Fords (40%) and Chrysler products...
...choice had seemed likely since January, when the U.S. Air Force ordered 650 F-16s for its own fleet. The fighter handles better than its chief competitors, the Swedish Viggen, built by Saab-Scania, and the Mirage F1-M53, built by the French firm Dassault-Breguet. The F-16 also appealed to the consortium because of the savings that would result from standardizing planes of U.S. and NATO forces...
Boredom on the job. Blue-collar blues. By any name, the problems of low morale and numbing monotony surrounding production-line work have been of considerable concern in U.S. industry. One alternative often cited by various work reformers is the team-assembly concept pioneered by the Swedish automakers Saab and Volvo, according to which workers in small groups perform rotating tasks rather than installing the same widget on a fast-moving, impersonal line. American sociologists and union and management officials regularly return from tours of such plants favorably impressed. But recently a group of six Detroit engine-plant employees tried...
...Americans, all employees of General Motors, Ford or Chrysler, ranged in age from 21 to 53 and in experience from eight months to 21 years on Detroit assembly lines. They spent four weeks at a Saab engine plant in Sodertälje, Sweden, under a Cornell University project funded by the Ford Foundation. According to a report completed last week by Robert Goldmann, a Ford Foundation program officer who accompanied the group, the six generally found the physical working environment at Saab better than at home. More work space per person and omnipresent safety officials made the plant less hazardous...
...Saab plant, teams of three or four workers assemble light, four-cylinder car engines at a rate of up to eight per hour. Team members decide among themselves who will work on what part of the engine, and some of the Americans welcomed this change from assembly-line routine. Herman Lommerse, 53, a Cadillac engine-plant worker, felt as if they were "building little toys." But his colleagues found the pace of work unexpectedly fast. Said Joe Rodriquez, 36, a ten-year Ford employee: "If I've got to bust my ass to be meaningful, forget...