| Description |
1 online resource (199 pages) |
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Social Institutions and Social Change |
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Social institutions and social change.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: The Coming of the Transplants: Why Are They Important?; Questions About the Transplants; Theory Applied to the Transplants: Embedded Corporatism; Chapter 2: The Global-Local Connection: How the Changing Global Economy Affected States and Communities; Historical Context for the Transplant Phenomenon; Response to the Changing Global Economy; Theorizing Change: The Emerging Political Economy; Chapter 3: Settling in the Heartland: Why the Midwest Corridor? (with Fanying Kong) |
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Three Perspectives on Location Decisions: Organization, Class, and State InfluencesWinners and Competitors; Ohio Case; Tennessee Case; Michigan Case; Illinois Case; Kentucky Case; Indiana Case; Summary of Findings and Regression Analysis; Conclusion; Chapter 4: Selling Growth to Small-Town America: Media Images; Newspapers and the Politics of Growth; Legitimizing Incentives for Corporatism; Who Speaks on the Transplants?; Costs and Benefits of Growth; How Newspapers Deal with Dissident Voices; Conclusions; Chapter 5: Creating a New Worker: Fusing Labor, Community, and Company |
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Prerecruitment Community SocializationRecruitment Socialization; Work Group Training; In-Plant Culture; Transplanting Structure and Building a Workplace Culture: Is it Taking Hold?; Chapter 6: In the Heart of the Heart of the Country: Corporatism as Civic Virtue; Reactions to the Transplant Project: Politics, Business, Labor; Incentive Packages; Embeddedness: The Social Side of Economic Activity; Embeddedness in Indiana: Personal and Organizational Relationships; Embeddedness in Kentucky; Embeddedness in Tennessee; Embeddedness and African-Americans; Final Comments |
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Chapter 7: Capital and Community in Transition: Continuing Corporate Welfare or Nascent Social Economy?Corporate Welfare and Capital-Community Tension; Possibilities for New Capital-Community Accords; Appendix: A Note on Method; Documents; Newspapers; Interviews; Consultation; References; Index |
| Summary |
"Japanese Auto Transplants in the Heartland"--Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Automobile industry and trade -- United States -- Foreign ownership -- Case studies
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Corporations, Japanese -- Location -- United States -- Case studies
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Automobile industry and trade -- Foreign ownership
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Corporations, Japanese -- Location
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Economic history
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| SUBJECT |
Middle West -- Economic conditions
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Middle West
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781351511124 |
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1351511122 |
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