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- English
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Restructuring the Global Automobile Industry
About this book
Originally published in 1991, this book examines the spatial implications of the changes to the automobile industry at world, national and local levels. The volume brings together the work of North American, European and Japanese geographers, economists and sociologists, and includes perspectives from the components industry, the shop floor experience and local economic policy making.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Notes on contributors
- Preface
- 1 Motor vehicle manufacturing: the representative industry
- 2 The world automotive industry in transition
- 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