Download or read book The Restructuring of the Automotive Industry in the United States and Italy written by Stefan Frühauf and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The automotive industry is among the sectors that have been hit the hardest by the global financial crisis. Car demand experienced a sharp drop, stressing the pre-crisis difficulties of overcapacity and exacerbating the economic downturn in major car-manufacturing countries. Since then, considerable efforts have been taken all over the world to lead the auto-motive industry through the global recession. Yet the extent of and reasons for the implementation of restructuring measures have varied significantly between individual countries, regions and automotive manufacturers. This thesis examines the extent of and reasons for state intervention in the restructuring of the automotive industry in the United States and Italy throughout the financial crisis and identifies the main factors that accounted for the differences between the two countries and corresponding car manufacturers with regards to the restructuring process. Thereby it becomes clear, that the initial situation within the two states could not have been more diverse and that governments and other non-market actors are at the basis of a viable and confident future of the automotive industry.
Download or read book Restructuring the Global Automobile Industry written by Christopher M. Law and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-07-06 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Title Page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Contributors -- Preface -- 1 Motor vehicle manufacturing: the representative industry -- 2 The world automotive industry intransition -- 3 New horizons? The Third World motor vehicle industry in an international framework -- 4 The transformation of the Japanese motor vehicle industry and its role in the world: industrial restructuring and technical evolution -- 5 The impact of Japanese investment in the United States -- 6 Nothing new about Nissan? -- 7 Motor components: locational issues in an international industry -- 8 Vertical integration or disintegration? The case of the UK car parts industry -- 9 Restructuring the Swedish manufacturing industry - the case of the motor vehicle industry -- 10 Subcontracting in the motor industry: a case study in Coventry -- 11 Industrial restructuring and the labour force: the case of Austin Rover in Longbridge, Birmingham -- 12 Policy implications of trends and changes in the vehicle and components industries: the case of the West Midlands -- Bibliography -- Index
Download or read book Transforming the Latin American Automobile Industry written by John P. Tuman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study looks at union responses to the changes in the Latin American car industry in the last 15 years. It considers the impact of the shift towards export production and regional integration, and the effect of political changes on union reponses.
Download or read book U S Motor Vehicle Industry written by Stephen Cooney and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a print on demand edition of a hard to find publication. In 12/08, Pres. George W. Bush provided financial assistance to GM and Chrysler -- $13.4 billion to GM and $4 billion to Chrysler from the Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP). Ford did not need such assistance immediately but might require a line of credit in 2009. A further $6 billion was loaned to GM Acceptance Corp. (GMAC), and $1.5 billion to Chrysler Financial, the two manufacturers¿ respective credit affiliates. Contents of this report: Intro.; Auto Industry Loan Develop. in 12/08; Impact on the National Economy; The Domestic Motor Vehicle Market; Financial Issues in the Auto Industry; Financial Solutions: Bridge Loans and Restructuring; Pension and Health Care Issues; Stipulations and Conditions on TARP Loans to the Auto Industry.
Download or read book Who Really Made Your Car written by Thomas H. Klier and published by W.E. Upjohn Institute. This book was released on 2008 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a comprehensive look at an industry that plays a growing role in motor vehicle production in the United States.
Download or read book A Reorganization of the U S Automobile Industry written by Stanley Eugene Boyle and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Restructuring Paradise written by William D. Hayes and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Restructuring of the Automobile Industry in the USA written by R. D. Bingham and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reshaping the North American Automobile Industry written by John P. Tuman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-03 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work examines the responses of unions and workers to regional integration and restructuring in the automobile industry in North and Central America. The focus is on the automobile industry in Mexico, which, because of its size and importance, is viewed as a strategic sector of the Mexican economy and was the focal point of talks between the US, Canada and Mexico during negotiations on NAFTA. Focusing on the period from 1980, John P. Tuman examines the changes implemented by firms to promote export production, he explores reasons for the variation in labour responses to restructuring, and he discusses the prospects for cross-border organizing and co-operation among automobile workers in Canada, the US and Mexico.
Download or read book TNCs industrial restructuring and competitiveness in the automotive industry in NAFTA MERCOSUR and ASEAN written by Jorge Carrillo Viveros and published by Jorge Carrillo Viveros. This book was released on with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wrecked written by Joshua Murray and published by Russell Sage Foundation. This book was released on 2019-06-13 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At its peak in the 1950s and 1960s, automobile manufacturing was the largest, most profitable industry in the United States and residents of industry hubs like Detroit and Flint, Michigan had some of the highest incomes in the country. Over the last half-century, the industry has declined, and American automakers now struggle to stay profitable. How did the most prosperous industry in the richest country in the world crash and burn? In Wrecked, sociologists Joshua Murray and Michael Schwartz offer an unprecedented historical-sociological analysis of the downfall of the auto industry. Through an in-depth examination of labor relations and the production processes of automakers in the U.S. and Japan both before and after World War II, they demonstrate that the decline of the American manufacturers was the unintended consequence of their attempts to weaken the bargaining power of their unions. Today Japanese and many European automakers produce higher quality cars at lower cost than their American counterparts thanks to a flexible form of production characterized by long-term sole suppliers, assembly and supply plants located near each other, and just-in-time delivery of raw materials. While this style of production was, in fact, pioneered in the U.S. prior to World War II, in the years after the war, American automakers deliberately dismantled this system. As Murray and Schwartz show, flexible production accelerated innovation but also facilitated workers’ efforts to unionize plants and carry out work stoppages. To reduce the efficacy of strikes and combat the labor militancy that flourished between the Depression and the postwar period, the industry dispersed production across the nation, began maintaining large stockpiles of inventory, and eliminated single sourcing. While this restructuring of production did ultimately reduce workers’ leverage, it also decreased production efficiency and innovation. The U.S. auto industry has struggled ever since to compete with foreign automakers, and formerly thriving motor cities have suffered the consequences of mass deindustrialization. Murray and Schwartz argue that new business models that reinstate flexible production and prioritize innovation rather than cheap labor could stem the outsourcing of jobs and help revive the auto industry. By clarifying the historical relationships between production processes, organized labor, and industrial innovation, Wrecked provides new insights into the inner workings and decline of the U.S. auto industry.
Download or read book Driving Force written by Kurt Hoffman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-11 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is concerned with the future direction of the international division of labour in manufacturing. It explores the different patterns of foreign direct investment in the eras of machinofacture and systemofacture with respect to a study of the global production of automobile components.
Download or read book Auto Industry written by Gene L. Dodaro and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2009-11 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Dec. 2008 the Dept. of the Treasury established the Auto. Industry Financing Program under the Troubled Asset Relief Program. From Dec. 2008 through March 2009, Treasury has allocated about $36 billion to this program, including loans to Chrysler and GM. Three principles should guide fed. assistance to large firms: define the problem, determine the national interests and set goals and objectives, and protect the gov¿t. interests. This report discusses: (1) the nature and purpose of assistance to the auto industry; (2) how the assistance addresses the 3 principles; and (3) important factors for Chrysler and GM to address in achieving long-term viability and the challenges that they face to become viable. Charts and tables.
Download or read book U S Automotive Industry written by Stephen Cooney and published by Nova Publishers. This book was released on 2007 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over one million Americans are employed in manufacturing motor vehicles, equipment and parts. But the industry has changed dramatically since the U.S. "Big Three" motor vehicle corporations (General Motors, Ford and Chrysler) produced the overwhelming majority of cars and light trucks sold in the United States, and directly employed many people themselves. By 2003, most passenger cars sold in the U.S. market were either imported or manufactured by foreign-based producers at new North American plants (so-called "transplant" facilities). The Big Three now dominate only in light trucks, and are also now being challenged there by the foreign brands. The Big Three have shed about 600,000 U.S. jobs since 1980, while about one-quarter of Americans employed in automotive manufacturing (nearly 300,000) work for the foreign-owned companies. It is clear that the U.S. automotive industry has undergone many drastic changes that have had a net adverse effect on American interests. This book examines the causes of these changes. Congressional acts, increasingly stringent emission laws, the effects of NAFTA, labour unions and globalisation are all within the scope of this book.
Download or read book Towards a New Map of Automobile Manufacturing in Europe written by Ray Hudson and published by Springer. This book was released on 1995-06-20 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the product of four years of collaborative work within the framework of the European Science Foundation's Regional and Urban Restructuring in Europe (RURE) programme. With one exception, all of the chapters have been prepared by participants in RURE - the exception being that commissioned from Conti and Enrietti on Fiat and Italy to provide a fuller coverage of changes in the main automobile producing companies and countries of Europe. A - perhaps the - central theme around which the RURE programme was conceived is that the restructuring of the production system lies at the heart of the changing map of Europe. Equally, it continues to be the case that the automobile industry lies at the cutting edge of the search for viable new models of production. Some eighty years ago the automobile industry occupied a pivotal position in the transition from craft to mass production - indeed "Fordism" came to denote not just a particular micro-economic model of production organisation in the factory but a macro-scale model of economic development, characterized by a particular pattern of relations between mass production, mass consumption and national state regulation. From the late 1960s, however, it became increasingly clear that Fordism as a macro-scale model of advanced capitalist development was reaching its limits.
Download or read book Technological Change Restructuring and Spatial Organization of Production of the Italian Automotive Industry written by G. Spirano and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Financial Restructuring of the World Auto Industry written by Martin L. Anderson and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
