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

Ex-library with the usual library markings (if not for the library markings this copy would be graded in fine condition); overall a very crisp and clean used copy! Very rare and hard-to-find FIRST EDITION! Tan cloth with blue lettering on the spine. 425 very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and historical pages nicely enhanced by black and white illustrations! Extremely scarce and out-of-print! "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.".…