Routledge Library Editions: The Automobile Industry
About the Book Series
Originally published between 1956 and 1997, the volume in this set take the automobile industry experience as a basis for a wider view of industrial relations, trends and developments from the 1950s to the 1990s. They also analyse the emergence of new institutions and systems of labour-management relationships, examine the effects of automotion and technical change, the impact of fluctuations in the market for cars and wage trends. They discuss the car and its role in social, geographical and political change.
The volumes provide:
- detailed surveys of some of the biggest post-war disputes and especially of trade union organization.
- the experience of individual firms, such as Austin, Ford and Fiat.
- comparative surveys of labour relationships in major car manufacturing countries such as the UK, USA, Germany and Japan.
And include:
- material about the technology, design and production of cars and the ancillary fields of oil production, refining and road building.
Corporate Purpose: Why It Matters More Than Strategy
1st Edition
By Shankar Basu
August 20, 2019
Originally published in 1999 after a decade of research and extensive interviews with some of Toyota's top executives, this book examines organizational purpose: what it is, how it is crafted, how does it relate to strategy and objectives and how does it relate to decisions and actions that ...
Labour Relations in the Motor Industry: A Study of Industrial Unrest and an International Comparison
1st Edition
By H. A. Turner, Garfield Clack, Geoffrey Roberts
August 20, 2019
This book, originally published in 1967, takes the automobile industry experience as a basis for a wider view of industrial relations, trends and developments of the 1950s and 60s. The study also analyses the emergence of new institutions and systems of labour-management relationships. It contains ...
Restructuring the Global Automobile Industry
1st Edition
By Christopher M. Law
August 20, 2019
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 ...
Short Sighted Solutions: Trade and Energy Policies for the US Auto Industry
1st Edition
By Robert E. Scott
August 20, 2019
This book, originally published in 1994, explores the effects of federal policies on the US auto industry in the 1970s and 80s which were designed to save jobs and help the domestic industry become more competitive. The author develops a new model based on modern oliopoly theory to estimate the ...
Strategic Adjustment of Price by Japanese and American Automobile Manufacturers
1st Edition
By Kaye G. Husbands
August 20, 2019
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 ...
The Automobile: A Chronology of Its Antecedents, Development, and Impact
1st Edition
By Clay McShane
August 20, 2019
Originally published in 1997 and now re-issued with some updated material, this chronology lists the major events in the history of the automobile. The automobile cannot be understood without knowing about its pre-history, including technologies such as railroads, carriages and trolley cars. ...
The Foreman on the Assembly Line
1st Edition
By Charles R. Walker, Robert H. Guest, Arthur N. Turner
August 20, 2019
As part of a 1950s study dealing with various phases of the impact of mass production on human behaviour, this volume, originally published in 1956 and now a classic of its time examines the technological environment and the foreman within management, from the foreman's point of view. The book ...
The Long Haul: A Social Histry of the British Commercial Vehicle Industry
1st Edition
By Michael Seth-Smith
August 20, 2019
Originally published in 1975 this book charts the history of Foden, a name inseparably linked with the growth and development of the haulage industry. The history of Foden provides the perfect backdrop to the history of the entire industry and the commercial vehicle generally, as it unfolds against...
The Motor Car Industry in Coventry Since the 1890s
1st Edition
By David Thoms, Tom Donnelly
August 20, 2019
This book, originally published in 1985, examines the development of the car industry in Coventry within both its local context and the wider economic environment. It is a study of expansion and adjustment which reflects the broader pattern of Britain's industrial history. The book analyses the ...
The Motor Industry
1st Edition
By George Maxcy, Aubrey Silberston
August 20, 2019
Originally published in 1959, this book was one of the first to give a comprehensive view of the motor industry from an economic standpoint. Although the book concentrates on the UK motor industry, many references are made to that of the USA and other leading automobile manufacturers. Among the ...
Routledge Library Editions: The Automobile Industry
1st Edition
By Timothy Hall
July 07, 2017
Originally published between 1956 and 1997, the volume in this set take the automobile industry experience as a basis for a wider view of industrial relations, trends and developments from the 1950s to the 1990s. They also analyse the emergence of new institutions and systems of labour-management ...