"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...

Years after the Great Recession, the economy is still weak, and an unprecedented number of workers have sunk into long spells of unemployment. Cut Loose provides a vivid and moving account of the experiences of some of these men and women, through the example of a historically important group:...

Demographischer Wandel in der Automobilindustrie -- Beschäftigungsfähigkeit im Altersverlauf -- Theorien und Modelle der Arbeitsgestaltung und Job Rotation -- Diskussion erster Ergebnisse einer dreijährigen Pilotstudie.

"Years after the Great Recession, the economy is still weak, and an unprecedented number of workers have sunk into long spells of unemployment, increasingly unlikely to get another good job in their lifetimes. Based on a careful crossnational comparison, "Cut Loose" describes the experiences of...

The authors use case study evidence from hospitals and auto parts manufacturers to investigate why employers used - and even increased their use of - temporary help agencies during a period of tight labor markets in the 1990s. In high-skill occupations, the evidence suggests employers paid...

Para examinar el surgimiento del movimiento clasista en la industria automotriz cordobesa, el presente trabajo senala que la creciente competencia por el mercado, a partir de mediados de los 60, forzo a las empresas a adoptar o profundizar politicas que incrementaban la productividad laboral,...

The research revealed no technological unemployment at the aggregate level, but labour per unit of output decreased in automated production lines. The share of skilled workers increased, mainly due to an absolute increase of maintenance jobs. In contrast the share of production workers and their...

Workers' participation in trade unions is one of the important aspects of the labour movement. In this study the authors attempt to answer two related questions - (i) why some unions elicit greater participation than others and (ii) why some workers participate more than others in union...