Japanese Auto Transplants in the Heartland: Corporatism and Community

by Robert Perrucci

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0202305295
• ISBN13: 9780202305295
• Release Date: December 1994
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"