"Historians and readers alike often overlook the everyday experiences of workers. Drawing on years of interviews and archival research, Daniel J. Clark presents the rich, interesting, and sometimes confounding lives of men and women who worked in Detroit-area automotive plants in the 1950s. In...

"This book assesses the United Auto Workers efforts to organize foreign vehicle plants in the South since 1989. It chronicles increased transnational union cooperation and the development of an employers' union avoidance playbook. It shows local politicians fought unionization to preserve their...

Die Mobilitätsbereiche des deutschen Arbeitsmarktes stehen durch Entwicklungen in der Elektromobilität und Digitalisierung vor einem tiefgreifenden Wandel, der die zukünftige Mobilität mit elektrischem, vernetztem und autonomem Fahren bestimmen wird. Um der Globalisierung der Wirtschaft und...

Credence goods, such as car repairs or medical services, are characterized by severe informational asymmetries between sellers and consumers, leading to fraud in the form of provision of insufficient service (undertreatment), provision of unnecessary service (overtreatment) and charging too much...

"The Color Line and the Assembly Line tells a new story of the impact of mass production on society. Global corporations based originally in the United States have played a part in making gender and race everywhere. Focusing on Ford Motor Company's rise to become the largest, richest, and most...

We compare the behavior of car mechanics and college students as sellers in experimental credence goods markets. Finding largely similar behavior, we note much more overtreatment by car mechanics, probably due to decision heuristics they learned in their professional training. -- artefactual...