Innovation is a key to corporate success‎,‎ particularly in times of rapid technological change‎.‎ This book sheds new light on the introduction of technology in the manufacturing sector‎.‎ The author considers the use of innovative technology in both Britain and Japan by examining nine firms in each country‎.‎ He focuses on computerised machine tools ‎(‎CNC‎)‎ and shows how the various firms have risen to the challenge of implementing the new technology‎.‎ Particular emphasis is placed on the differing employment relations in the factories‎,‎ the nature of operating training and workload distribution‎.‎ Dr Whittaker identifies fundamentally different approaches in the two countries which have implications for competiveness as well as future innovation‎.‎ The contrast is especially attractive since Japanese industrial relations is commonly distinguished by its cooperative nature whilst industrial relations in Britain has tended to be more confrontational‎.‎ These conventional views are challenged with an original perspective on the labour process and n‎.‎‎.‎‎.‎