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Author : JOHN B. RAE
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : John Bell Rae
Publisher : Boston, Mass. : Twayne Publishers
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Automobile industry and trade
ISBN : STANFORD:36105000383278
Author : Automobile Manufacturers Association
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Automobile industry and trade
ISBN : NWU:35556038334462
Author : Paul Ingrassia,Joseph B. White
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781476737478
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.
Author : Joshua Murray,Michael Schwartz
Publisher : Russell Sage Foundation
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781610448871
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.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Automobile industry and trade
ISBN : UVA:X005008808
Author : Brock Yates
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105001895254
Analyzes the reasons for the failures of the American auto industry to compete with foreign imports and to make use of modern technology and styling.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105012074972
Author : Associated American Manufacturers of Automobiles
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1908
Category : Tariff on automobiles
ISBN : HARVARD:HNCCCL
Author : Kaye G. Husbands
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351664615
This book, originally published in 1993, develops for the US automobile industry a demand-supply model which incorporates both wholesale and retail sectors and which allows strategic pricing behaviour of US and Japanese producers to be internally determined and its effects on market behaviour and national welfare analyzed. It develops the framework for and presents the results of an econometric simulation of the transaction and wholesale prices, quantities demanded and produced, manufacturer's costs and factor demands. The impact of the Voluntary Export Restraint of 1981 on profits and consumer welfare are generated from the simulation results.
Author : Charles K. Hyde
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814339527
Throughout World War II, Detroit's automobile manufacturers accounted for one-fifth of the dollar value of the nation's total war production, and this amazing output from "the arsenal of democracy" directly contributed to the allied victory. In fact, automobile makers achieved such production miracles that many of their methods were adopted by other defense industries, particularly the aircraft industry. In Arsenal of Democracy: The American Automobile Industry in World War II, award-winning historian Charles K. Hyde details the industry's transition to a wartime production powerhouse and some of its notable achievements along the way. Hyde examines several innovative cooperative relationships that developed between the executive branch of the federal government, U.S. military services, automobile industry leaders, auto industry suppliers, and the United Automobile Workers (UAW) union, which set up the industry to achieve production miracles. He goes on to examine the struggles and achievements of individual automakers during the war years in producing items like aircraft engines, aircraft components, and complete aircraft; tanks and other armored vehicles; jeeps, trucks, and amphibians; guns, shells, and bullets of all types; and a wide range of other weapons and war goods ranging from search lights to submarine nets and gyroscopes. Hyde also considers the important role played by previously underused workers-namely African Americans and women-in the war effort and their experiences on the line. Arsenal of Democracy includes an analysis of wartime production nationally, on the automotive industry level, by individual automakers, and at the single plant level. For this thorough history, Hyde has consulted previously overlooked records collected by the Automobile Manufacturers Association that are now housed in the National Automotive History Collection of the Detroit Public Library. Automotive historians, World War II scholars, and American history buffs will welcome the compelling look at wartime industry in Arsenal of Democracy.
Author : Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association of the United States
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Transportation
ISBN : UOM:39015026511512
Author : Charles K. Hyde
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0814334466
Auto historians and readers interested in business history will enjoy Storied Independent Automakers.
Author : G. N. Georgano
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Automobiles
ISBN : 076519631X
Traces the history and development of the American automobile and highlights the most notable models, technical developments, and trends.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Automobile industry and trade
ISBN : STANFORD:36105027277354