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When Good Jobs Go Bad: Globalization, De-unionization, and Declining Job Quality in the North American Auto Industry
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Rutgers Univ Pr
Publication date
March 16, 2016
Pages
184
Binding
Paperback
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780813576053
ISBN-10
0813576059
Dimensions
0.75 by 6 by 9 in.
Weight
0.65 lbs.
Original list price
$26.95
Other format details
university press
Summaries and Reviews
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From Chinese factories making cheap toys for export, to sweatshops in Bangladesh where name-brand garments are sewnâstudies on the impact of globalization on workers have tended to focus on the worst jobs and the worst conditions. But in When Good Jobs Go Bad, Jeffrey Rothstein looks at the impact of globalization on a major industryâthe North American auto industryâto reveal that globalization has had a deleterious effect on even the most valued of blue-collar jobs.
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Rothstein argues that the consolidation of the Mexican and U.S.-Canadian auto industries, the expanding number of foreign automakers in North America, and the spread of lean production have all undermined organized labor and harmed workers. Focusing on three General Motors plants assembling SUVsâan older plant in Janesville, Wisconsin; a newer and more viable plant in Arlington, Texas; and a âgreenfield siteâ (a brand-new, state-of-the-art facility) in Silao, MexicoâWhen Good Jobs Go Bad shows how global competition has made nonstop, monotonous, standardized routines crucial for the survival of a plant, and it explains why workers and their local unions struggle to resist. For instance, in the United States, General Motors forced workers to accept intensified labor by threatening to close plants, which led local unions to adopt âkeep the plant openâ as their main goal. At its new factory in Silao, GM had hand-picked the unionâone opposed to strikes and committed to labor-management cooperationâbefore it hired the first worker.Â
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Rothsteinâs engaging comparative analysis, which incorporates the viewpoints of workers, union officials, and management, sheds new light on laborâs loss of bargaining power in recent decades, and highlights the negative impact of globalization on all jobs, both good and bad, from the sweatshop to the assembly line.
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Hardcover
from Rutgers Univ Pr (March 16, 2016)
9780813576060 | details & prices | 184 pages | 6.25 × 9.25 × 1.00 in. | 1.00 lbs | List price $80.00
About: From Chinese factories making cheap toys for export, to sweatshops in Bangladesh where name-brand garments are sewnâstudies on the impact of globalization on workers have tended to focus on the worst jobs and the worst conditions.
About: From Chinese factories making cheap toys for export, to sweatshops in Bangladesh where name-brand garments are sewnâstudies on the impact of globalization on workers have tended to focus on the worst jobs and the worst conditions.
Paperback
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from Rutgers Univ Pr (March 16, 2016)
9780813576053 | details & prices | 184 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 0.75 in. | 0.65 lbs | List price $26.95
About: From Chinese factories making cheap toys for export, to sweatshops in Bangladesh where name-brand garments are sewnâstudies on the impact of globalization on workers have tended to focus on the worst jobs and the worst conditions.
About: From Chinese factories making cheap toys for export, to sweatshops in Bangladesh where name-brand garments are sewnâstudies on the impact of globalization on workers have tended to focus on the worst jobs and the worst conditions.
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