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Paul Edwards
The classic of workplace industrial relations, Huw Beynon’s Working for Ford, is assessed in the light of debates about shifts from ‘hegemony’ to post-Fordist production regimes and methodological interest in the extended case method. Substantively, Beynon captured a regime of workplace battles where hegemony was notably absent and explained the regime in terms of workers’ traditions, the nature of workplace union organization, and managerial strategies. Methodologically, the book exemplifies an extended case method in providing a deeply contextualized account in which the theory remains implicit. Contrasts with other cases allow a more explicit theoretical account to be developed. This analysis provides lessons for how an extended case analysis can be developed.
