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Title: Irving Bluestone: Saturn Corporation Collection Genre: Papers Dates: 1985-1995 Size : .75 linear feet, 1 1/2 manuscript boxes ID #: 213 OCLC:
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The papers
comprising the Irving Bluestone: Saturn Corporation Collection were placed in
the Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs in February of 1995 by Mr. Bluestone
and were opened for research in November of 2000.
In 1982 General
Motors began discussions about using innovative design and manufacturing
techniques to build a quality, cost-effective small car that could compete with
foreign-made vehicles. The following year the UAW was brought into the
discussions and the Saturn Project was officially launched. GM unveiled Saturn Corporation as a
wholly-owned subsidiary in January of 1985 and six months later the historic
labor agreement giving the UAW full partnership in the management of the
enterprise was signed. In 1986
work began on Saturn’s unique facility at Spring Hill, Tennessee, which
accommodated the manufacture of all major components of the car on site, and
the first Saturns went on sale in the fall of 1990.
In 1992, retired
UAW Vice President and General Motors Department director, Irving Bluestone
co-authored Negotiating the Future, which described how a new, non-adversarial approach to
labor-management relations could help America compete in world markets. Most of the material in this collection
was assembled by Mr. Bluestone for his chapter on the innovative
labor-management experiment between the UAW and GM’s Saturn division,
although some of the press coverage and correspondence with UAW Saturn Local
1853 president, Michael Bennett postdates the book’s publication.
The Irving
Bluestone: Saturn Corporation Collection contains instructional material,
speeches, newspaper and magazine articles and other items documenting the
development of the co-management/team production model at Saturn as well as the
controversy that emerged over the implementation of this radically different
labor-management relationship.
Automobile
industry and trade--United States
Automobile
industry workers--United States
Industrial
relations--United States
Management--Employee
participation--United States
Quality of work
life
Saturn
Corporation
Saturn
Corporation--Employees
UAW Local 1853
(Spring Hill, Tenn.)
Michael Bennett
Irving Bluestone
A videotape of
the segment on Saturn Corporation in the 1991 ABC documentary,
“Revolution at Work,” has been placed in the Archives Audiovisual
Collection.
Contents
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1-2. Saturn Corp.; Bennett, Michael,
corres., articles, speeches, 1989-93
3. Saturn Corp.;
Bluestone, Irving, interviews, 1990-91
4. Saturn Corp.;
history
5. Saturn Corp.;
philosophy
6-9. Saturn Corp.; press coverage,
1986-95
10-12. Saturn
Corp.; UAW contract, 1985-86, 1991-94
13. Saturn Corp.; work
organization and decision-making, 1987-91
1. Saturn Corp.;
work organization and decision-making, 1987-91
2. Saturn Corp.;
work organization and decision-making—articles, 1980s-1990s
3. Saturn Corp.;
worker recruitment and training, n.d.
4. Work in America
Institute Productivity Forum, 1990-94
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