Japanese auto transplants in the heartland : corporatism and community
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Bibliographic Information
Japanese auto transplants in the heartland : corporatism and community
(Social institutions and social change : an Aldine de Gruyter series of texts and monographs)
Aldine de Gruyter, c1994
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-177) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The idea for this book was formed during the early 1980s when the author was studying the impact of plant closings on displaced workers and communities. In one community, workers who were displaced by a plant closing expected to receive retraining funds through the Job Training and Partnership Act (JTPA), only to find that the state had committed all the JTPA funds to train new workers for a Japanese transplant. Soon it became apparent that deindustrialization, job loss, and economically depressed communities were linked with the escalating interstate competition to provide multi-million dollar incentive packages for businesses to settle in their state. When Japanese automobile companies considered coming to the United States, they fueled the interstate competition for these large projects, which promised thousands of jobs and economic growth.
Table of Contents
1 The Coming of the Transplants: Why Are They Important? 2 The Global-Local Connection: How the Changing Global Economy Affected States and Communities 3 Settling in the Heartland: Why the Midwest Corridor? 4 Selling Growth in Small-Town America: Media Images 5 Creating a New Worker: Fusing Labor, Community, and Company 6 In the Heart of the Heart of the Country: Corporatism as Civic Virtue 7 Capital and Community in Transition: Continuing Corporate Welfare or Nascent Social Economy?
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