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Japanese manufacturing in the US elicits much speculation.
Concentrating on autoparts production, these studies show not only
how Japanese manufacturing has brought change to East Tennessee but
also how it has changed through its experience in America.The book
gives a cross-cultural perspective on Japanese investment.
"American Independent Automakers 1945-1960" covers the attempts by
major makes such as Kaiser-Frazer, Willys, Packard, Studebaker,
Tucker, Nash and Hudson to compete with the 'Big Three' in America.
The 'Independents' were the first to introduce all-new models in an
attempt to increase their market share and ensure the future. Also,
there were dozens of backyard enthusiasts trying to design the
perfect American sports car, such as Cunningham, Fitch, Darrin,
Williams, etc. A similar number endeavoured to build small,
economical cars such as Davis, Allstate, Playboy, Crosley and the
diminutive King Midget, yet all were ultimately doomed to fail.
There were steam cars, microcars, three-wheel cars and flying cars,
all competing to capture the consumer's fancy and become
significant builders in the years following World War II. Detailed
captions and supportive text combine with the use of contemporary
brochures, period literature, factory photos, and over 90 new,
unpublished colour photos of restored examples to relate the
importance of these historic vehicles. This book looks at all the
major makers, focusing on the innovations, unique styling and
features, and why, ultimately, all failed.
Through developing an original analytical framework that, for the
first time, systematically relates productive, market and financial
variables, the authors are able to rewrite the history of the car
business since Henry Ford.
In this book Fulya Apaydin argues that labor responses to dramatic
technological change are influenced by the political institutions
of the Global South more than any other factor. In addressing
vocational education programs - which are highly relevant in
understanding how labor unrest is governed in developing settings -
she makes two important contributions. Firstly, she offers a new
theoretical framework to understand labor mobilization and
de-mobilization patterns, rethinking vocational education as a key
transmission belt for manufacturing labor consent. Secondly, she
provides a systematic comparison of skill formation schemes and
their implications on labor mobilization in federal and unitary
systems. With a focus on Argentina and Turkey, two case studies are
provided in which technology has provoked differing levels of
strikes, walkouts and extended protest.
In the 1960s the Cortina was an entirely new type of British car -
light yet strong, cheap to buy, and yet roomy. It established a new
class of car - the 'Cortina Class' - and Ford's rivals had to rush
to compete. Not only was the Cortina the first, it was the best,
too; a fascinating, ever-evolving project, around which
Ford-Europe's planning always revolved. This book gives all the
facts, figures, images and legends of the Cortina story. With over
180 colour and black and white photos this is the fascinating story
of an incredibly successful car.
The Rootes Group once dominated the British motor industry, and its
legacy lives on in thousands of carefully maintained cars - most
notably Hillmans, Humbers, Singers and Sunbeams. In this book,
using beautiful images from the Rootes Archive Centre, Richard
Loveys details the Group's history and leading car models, from its
creation as a car dealership by William and Reginald Rootes,
through its transition into motor manufacture, and expansion by
taking companies over and developing their car and commercial
vehicle ranges. It was a significant contributor to the war effort
in 1939-45, producing large numbers of military aircraft and
vehicles, and in its post-war heyday produced such icons as the
Sunbeam Alpine and Hillman Imp.
The Color Line and the Assembly Line tells a new story of the
impact of mass production on society. Global corporations, based
originally in the United States, have played a part in making
gender and race everywhere. Focusing on Ford Motor Company's rise
to become the largest, richest, and most influential corporation in
the world, The Color Line and the Assembly Line takes on the
traditional story of Fordism. Contrary to popular thought the
assembly line was perfectly compatible with all manner of racial
practice in the United States, Brazil, and South Africa. Each
country's distinct forms of racial hierarchies in the 1920s and
1930s informed Ford's often divisive labor processes. Confirming
racism as an essential component in the creation of global
capitalism, Elizabeth Esch also adds an important new lesson
showing how local patterns gave capitalism its distinctive
features.
On December 30, 2019, Carlos Ghosn became the most famous fugitive
on the planet when the former chairman of the
Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance fled to Lebanon from house
arrest in Japan.This political-judicial thriller describes in
detail for the first time how Ghosn was arrested on arrival at
Haneda Airport in Tokyo a year earlier and incarcerated for 130
days. Long revered in Japan for saving Nissan from bankruptcy in
1999 and helping Renault achieve the best results in its history,
Ghosn explains being transformed overnight into a pariah, torn from
the world and his family as the victim of a smear campaign
orchestrated by the Nissan Old Guard and the Tokyo Public
Prosecutors' Office. Ghosn also recounts how he built the
Franco-Japanese Alliance into a global motor giant, expanding
operations in markets from the United States, China and Russia to
Brazil, Morocco and Thailand, becoming the world's top automaker by
volume in 2017. But his arrest on November 9, 2018 plunges the
alliance into crisis as company share prices collapse at the same
time as the global auto industry faces an unprecedented
technological revolution. Broken Alliances involves the highest
levels of political power in Japan and France and describes a
Japanese judicial system closer to that of the Soviet Union under
Stalin than an advanced democracy. It also addresses the reasons
behind Nissan's internal coup and questions about the chairman's
remuneration, his management methods and his vision for the future
of the auto industry - to understand what has happened and what
could still happen tomorrow.
When Holden signalled that it would close its Adelaide factory, it
struck at the very heart of Australian identity. Holden is our car
made on our shores. It's the choice of patriotic rev heads and
suburban drivers alike. How could a car that was so beloved - and
so popular - be so unprofitable to make? The story of the collapse
of Holden is about the people who make and drive the cars; it's
about sustaining industry in Australia; it's about communities of
workers and what happens when the work dries up. And if it's not
quite about the death of an icon - because Holdens will remain on
Australian roads for a long time to come - then it's about what
happens when an icon falls to its knees in front of a whole
nation..
While it remains too early to tell whether Treasury's intervention
in and reshaping of the U.S. automotive industry will prove to be a
success, there can be no question that the government's ambitious
actions have had a major impact and appear to be on a promising
course. Even so, the companies that received automotive bailout
funds continue to face uncertain futures, taxpayers remain at
financial risk, concerns remain about the transparency and
accountability of Treasury's efforts, and moral hazard lingers as a
long-run threat to the automotive industry and the broader economy.
This book examines the impact and implications of TARP on the U.S.
automotive industry.
The U.S. auto industry has struck a brick wall. Can it get back on
the road to recovery? At the Crossroads: Middle America and the
Battle to Save the Car Industry argues that the Obama
administration missed an historic opportunity in 2009 to launch a
Manhattan Project-style effort to save not only Detroit, but the
entire manufacturing base in Middle America. Abe Aamidor and Ted
Evanoff explain how Washingtons intervention fell short and how it
is holding back American economic recovery. The authors take a
thoughtful look at the root causes behind the auto industrys crash,
including disastrous labor contracts such as the 1950s 3Treaty of
Detroit, which set the stage for crushing legacy costs; Wall
Streets predatory financial practices ushered in under the Reagan
administration; and a largely unregulated free trade regime that
undermined the competitiveness of American manufacturing. At the
Crossroads tells the story of Detroits collapse and a failed
national industrial policy from the point of view of those most
affected by it ? the factory workers, small business owners, and
mayors of small manufacturing towns like Kokomo, Marion, and
Bedford in Indiana, the number two auto manufacturing state after
Michigan and the number one manufacturing state overall based on a
percentage of population. Washington could debate the pros and cons
of a national industrial policy and an auto industry bailout ad
nauseum, but it was the people in small towns in Middle America who
would live or die by the policy decisions of their distant national
leaders.
Industries have had to quickly and continuously adjust their
strategies in recent years to remain relevant and desirable. The
automotive industry in particular has grown exponentially since its
inception. In order for this industry to evolve with the changing
times and appropriately utilize emerging technologies, further
study on the new models and practices within the manufacturing
process is required. Examining a New Automobile Global
Manufacturing System considers emerging automobile manufacturing
practices for the strengthening of automobile corporate management
in advanced companies and discusses key changes within corporate
management strategies and management technology for the automotive
industry. Covering a range of critical topics such as production
systems, teaching strategies, and design models, this reference
work is ideal for manufacturers, managers, researchers, scholars,
practitioners, academicians, instructors, and students.
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