Who Really Made Your Car? Restructuring and Geographic Change in the Auto Industry - Softcover

Thomas Klier And James Rubenstein

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0880993332 ISBN 13: 9780880993333

Publisher: W.E. Upjohn Institute, 2008

Synopsis

This book provides a comprehensive look at an industry that is responsible for up to 70 percent of the value added in the manufacture of motor vehicles and whose employees outnumber final assembly workers by nearly four to one: auto parts suppliers. Klier and Rubenstein present the key characteristics of the vast network of parts suppliers and describe the changing geographics of U.S. motor vehicle production at the local, regional, national, and international levels. This helps illustrate the challenges in store for motor vehicle parts production in the United States and especially in the Midwest.

About this title

About the Author

Thomas Klier is a senior economist in the economic research department at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.

James Rubenstein is professor of geography at Miami University, Ohio.

Edition details

• Publisher: W.E. Upjohn Institute
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0880993332
• ISBN 13: 9780880993333
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 419