Author: Stephen HerzenbergPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Automobile industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
The North American Auto Industry at the Onset of Continental Free Trade Negotiations
Author: Stephen HerzenbergPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Automobile industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Canada and the Global Economy
Author: John N. H. BrittonPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780773513563
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
A collection of essays by twenty-three of Canada's leading economic geographers, Canada and the Global Economy is a comprehensive study of the evolving economic and geographic patterns of Canadian development. It provides a benchmark for research on the spatial development of the Canadian economy. The contributors explore four central themes: the locational impacts of the openness of the Canadian economy, Canada's relatively simple economic geography in terms of regional variations in resources and urban development, the problems of keeping pace with rapid advances in technology, and the role of government in maintaining a national market and assisting economic development. They outline the essential elements of Canada's contemporary economic geography and highlight the origins and spatial imprint of change in the Canadian economy; in particular they provide an assessment of Canada's participation in significant international patterns of economic change. Canada and the Global Economy is concerned not only with the economic size and location of consumption and production but also with institutional changes and shifts in employment, the sectoral composition of economic activity, and the organizational structure and locational behaviour of particular industries and firms. Special attention is given to the technological development of both established industries and new service and manufacturing activities. A timely addition to the field, it provides a geographic perspective on significant changes in jobs and types of work that result from the transformation of economic activities.
The North American Free Trade Agreement
Author: Robert C. ShelburnePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
U.S. Employment Effects of a North American Free Trade Agreement
Author: Gregory K. SchoepflePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Foreign trade and employment
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Social Reconstructions of the World Automobile Industry
Author: Frederic C. DeyoPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349248975
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
This book assesses the varying ways in which automobile assemblers in several countries of East and Southeast Asia, Europe and the Americas have sought to enhance their efficiency and flexibility in response to heightened global competition during the 1980s and early 1990s. It then explores the implications of such managerial strategies for workers and trade unions, and the responses of unions in seeking to preserve or enhance worker welfare and voice under industrial restructuring.
Publications of the U.S. Department of Labor, Subject Listing
Author: United States. Department of LaborPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
A Review of the Assessments of the Likely Economic Impact of NAFTA on the United States
Author: Gregory K. SchoepflePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Foreign trade and employment
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Lean Work
Author: Steve BabsonPublisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 9780814325353
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Examines the controversial Japanese model of lean production and its impact on work and workers in the global auto industry.
US-Mexico Trade
Author: Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Converging Divergences
Author: Harry C. KatzPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501731440
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
Exploring recent changes in employment practices in seven industrialized countries (Australia, Britain, Germany, Italy, Japan, Sweden, and the United States) and in two essential industries (automobile and telecommunications), Harry C. Katz and Owen Darbishire find that traditional national systems of employment are being challenged by four cross-national patterns. The patterns, which are becoming ever more prevalent, can be categorized as low-wage, human resource management, Japanese-oriented, and joint team-based strategies. The authors go on to show that these changing employment patterns are closely related to the decline of unions and growing income inequality. Drawing upon plant-level evidence on emerging employment practices, they provide a comprehensive analysis of changes in employment systems and labor-management relations. They conclude that while the variation in employment patterns is increasing within countries, evidence suggests that there is much commonality across countries in the nature of that variation and also similarity in the processes through which variation is appearing. Hence the term "converging divergences."