The Politics of Industrial Recruitment: Japanese Automobile Investment and Economic Development in the American States

by William Green and Ernest J. Yanarella

The essays in this volume explore the phenomenon of foreign industrial recruitment in terms of the experience of six mid-American states--Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, and Tennessee--in attracting Japanese automobile assembly facilities. This experience and the choice of plant sites by Mazda, Honda, Fuji-Isuzu, Mitsubishi, Toyota, and Nissan was invariably determined by multi-state negotiations and escalating state government incentive...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313263590
• ISBN13: 9780313263590
• Release Date: June 1990
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"