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Toyota City in Transition - A Motor Town Facing Globalization and Social Changes (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
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Toyota City in Transition - A Motor Town Facing Globalization and Social Changes (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
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This informative monograph focuses on the city of Toyota, located
in Aichi Prefecture, Japan. Aside from the fact that most Toyota
passenger vehicles are produced there, generally little is known
about its reality. Since the 1960s, the city has continuously
attracted numerous jobseekers from distant rural areas. Owing to
years of stable employment and settlement within local communities,
once-new workers gradually build strong ties with their neighbours
and actively participate in residential activities. This pattern of
settlement provides a unique example of long-prosperous industrial
cities, which deserves discussion against a backdrop of the present
"de-industrializing" urban economies. Unfortunately, this
favourable situation is now changing, despite the regional
economy's steady recovery from the 2008 financial crisis.
Addressing this paradox is the main focus of the present book. The
upgrading of the Toyota Production System and concomitant widening
class disparity are damaging local ties under severe pressure from
global competition. Other suppressing factors are driven by
sociological conditions, such as aging, declining marriage rates
and birth rates. By comparing two sets of survey data, from 2009
and 2015, and performing fieldwork research in two communities that
once were "new towns", the book seeks to provide an understanding
of the present situation of this unusual industrial city. At the
same time, a unique theoretical perspective is revealed that does
not fit the mould of either the Chicago School or the new urban
sociology.
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