This book examines the dramatic increase in automotive assembly plants in the former
Socialist Central European (CE) nations of Czechia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and …

Restructuring of the automotive industry in the post‐2000 period has led to the emergence of
three strata of automotive manufacturing jurisdictions. Core automotive countries host the …

This book chronicles the divergent growth trends in car production in Belgium and Spain. It
delves into how European integration, high wages, and the demise of GM and Ford led to …

Cities serve as nexus, they connect and are shaped by politico-governmental (State), market-
economic (Market), civil-societal (Societal), and geographic-natural (Geo-spatial) activities …

[E] conomic development policy cannot be premised simply on the notion that spatial
industry clusters observed in a given point in time are likely to be the sites of substantial …

Literature on Tesla, the electric car-maker, has been overwhelmingly positive. Largely
written by reporters or technology enthusiasts, the focus is on innovation–how Tesla is …

ABSTRACT In April 2024, workers at Volkswagen's huge plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee,
voted overwhelmingly to join the United Auto Workers. The victory was highly-significant; the …

For generations, automotive manufacturing has made an outsized contribution to the
Canadian economy. The industry's growth was supported by active industrial policy …

This article explores a February 1980 trip to Japan by Douglas Fraser, the president of the
United Automobile Workers. On the trip, Fraser met with the heads of Japan's biggest …

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 …