Author: Lawrence Howard SeltzerPublisher: A. M. Kelley
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
A Financial History of the American Automobile Industry
Author: Lawrence Howard SeltzerPublisher: A. M. Kelley
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
A Financial History of the American Automobile Industry
Author: Lawrence Howard SeltzerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Automobile industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Comeback
Author: Paul IngrassiaPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476737479
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
In Comeback, Pulitzer Prize-winners Paul Ingrassia and Joseph B. White take us to the boardrooms, the executive offices, and the shop floors of the auto business to reconstruct, in riveting detail, how America's premier industry stumbled, fell, and picked itself up again. The story begins in 1982, when Honda started building cars in Marysville, Ohio, and the entire U.S. car industry seemed to be on the brink of extinction. It ends just over a decade later, with a remarkable turn of the tables, as Japan's car industry falters and America's Big Three emerge as formidable global competitors. Comeback is a story propelled by larger-than-life characters -- Lee Iacocca, Henry Ford II, Don Petersen, Roger Smith, among many others -- and their greed, pride, and sheer refusal to face facts. But it is also a story full of dedicated, unlikely heroes who struggled to make the Big Three change before it was too late.
A Financial History of the American Automobile Industry... by Lawrence H. Seltzer,...
Author: Lawrence Howard SeltzerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
A financial history of the American automobile industry
Author: The Financial History of the American Automobile Industry Since 1928
Author: Samuel C. StearnThe Financial History of the American Automobile Industry
Author: Harold Dale KirchnerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Automobile industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
A Financial History of the American Automobile Industry, Etc
Author: Lawrence Howard SELTZERA Financial History of the American Automobile Industry
Author: Lawrence H. SeltzerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Automobile industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Wrecked
Author: Joshua MurrayPublisher: Russell Sage Foundation
ISBN: 0871548208
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
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.