U S Automotive Industry

Author : Stephen Cooney,Brent D. Yacobucci
Publisher : Nova Publishers
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1600211305

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U.S. Automotive Industry by Stephen Cooney,Brent D. Yacobucci Pdf

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.

Author : Brock Yates
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105001895254

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The Decline and Fall of the American Automobile Industry by Brock Yates Pdf

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 : Joshua Murray,Michael Schwartz
Publisher : Russell Sage Foundation
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781610448871

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Wrecked by Joshua Murray,Michael Schwartz Pdf

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 : James M. Rubenstein
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2002-03-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781134936281

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The Changing U.S. Auto Industry by James M. Rubenstein Pdf

First published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Charles K. Hyde
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814339527

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Arsenal of Democracy by Charles K. Hyde Pdf

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 : James M. Rubenstein
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2001-12-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0801867142

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Making and Selling Cars by James M. Rubenstein Pdf

The automobile has shaped nearly every aspect of modern American life. This text documents the story of the automotive industry, which, despite its power, is constantly struggling to assure its success.

Author : Paul Ingrassia,Joseph B. White
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781476737478

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Comeback by Paul Ingrassia,Joseph B. White Pdf

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 : Timothy J. Minchin
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780820358932

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America’s Other Automakers by Timothy J. Minchin Pdf

In 2018 almost half of all vehicles made in North America were produced at foreign-owned plants, and the sector was on track to monopolize the market. Despite this, the industry has been overlooked compared with its domestic counterpart, both in scholarship and popular memory. Redressing this neglect, America’s Other Automakers provides a new history of the foreignowned auto sector, the first to extensively draw on archival sources and to articulate the human agency of participants, including workers, managers, and industry recruiters. Timothy J. Minchin challenges the view that the industry’s growth primarily reflected incentives, stressing human agency and the complexity of individual stories instead. Deeply human in its approach, the book also explores the industry’s impact on grassroots communities, showing that it had more costs than supporters acknowledged. Drawing on a wide range of primary and secondary sources, America’s Other Automakers uncovers significant tensions over unionization, reports of discriminatory hiring, and unease about the industry’s rapid growth, critically exploring seven large assembly facilities and their impact on the communities in which they were built.

Author : Jeri Freedman
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2010-08-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781435894488

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The U.S. Auto Industry by Jeri Freedman Pdf

Provides information on the bailout of the U.S. auto industry and different viewpoints on how to deal with the issue.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Automobile industry and trade
ISBN : UVA:X005008808

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Meeting the Challenge by Anonim Pdf

Author : Sidney Weintraub,Christopher Sands
Publisher : CSIS
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0892063378

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The North American Auto Industry Under NAFTA by Sidney Weintraub,Christopher Sands Pdf

Analyzes the performance of the industry after the North American Free-Trade Agreement took effect, in each of the three countries and on the continent as a whole. Also looks at the impact of environmental regulations. The studies were funded by automobile companies and reviewed by personnel representing them. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Paul J. Ingrassia
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0671792148

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Comeback by Paul J. Ingrassia Pdf

Documents the collapse and comeback of America's largest industry in a saga of greed and stubbornness, spotlighting dedicated managers, engineers, and financiers who struggled to change the Big Three before it was too late. 60,000 first printing. First serial, The Wall Street Journal. Tour.

Author : National Research Council,Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems,Committee on Technology and International Economic and Trade Issues of the Office of the Foreign Secretary,Automobile Panel
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1982-02-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780309032896

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The Competitive Status of the U.S. Auto Industry by National Research Council,Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems,Committee on Technology and International Economic and Trade Issues of the Office of the Foreign Secretary,Automobile Panel Pdf

Author : Stephen Cooney
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781437939293

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China's Impact on the U. S. Automotive Industry by Stephen Cooney Pdf

This is a print on demand edition of a hard to find publication. China is both the fastest growing motor vehicle market and the fastest growing vehicle producer. Contents of this report: (1) Introduction; (2) China Becomes a Major Motor Vehicle Producer; (3) Foreign Investors in Chinese Motor Vehicle Industry: General Motors Now the Market Leader; Independent Production vs. Foreign Cooperation; (4) Impact of China on the U.S. Automotive Market: Chinese-Made Vehicles Not Imminent Factor; Major Chinese Impact in Automotive Parts; Competitive Labor Costs; (5) U.S. Policy Issues in Economic Relations with China; Administration Focus on Chinese Auto Sector Commitments; Congressional Concerns with Competition from China; (6) Conclusion. Charts and tables.

Author : Robert E. Cole,Taizo Yakushiji
Publisher : U of M Center For Japanese Studies
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1984-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780939512287

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The American and Japanese Auto Industries in Transition by Robert E. Cole,Taizo Yakushiji Pdf

This report was prepared for the Policy Board by the U.S. and Japanese research staffs of the Joint U.S.–Japan Automotive Study under the general direction of Professors Paul W. McCracken and Keichi Oshima, with research operations organized and coordinated by Robert E. Cole on the U.S. side, in close communication with the Taizo Yakushiji on the Japanese side. [preface] In view of the importance of stable, long-term economic relationships between Japan and the United States, automotive issues have to be dealt with in ways consistent with the joint prosperity of both countries. Furthermore, the current economic friction has the potential to adversely affect future political relationships. Indeed, under conditions of economic stagnation, major economic issues inevitably become political issues. With these considerations in mind, the Joint U.S.–Japan Automotive Study project was started in September 1981 to determine the conditions that will allow for the prosperous coexistence of the respective automobile industries. During this two-year study, we have identified four driving forces that will play a major role in determining the future course of the automotive industry of both countries. These are: (1) consumers’ demands and aspirations vis-à-vis automobiles; (2) flexible manufacturing systems (FMS); (3) rapidly evolving technology; and (4) the internationalization of the automotive industry. [exec. summary]