{"product_id":"when-good-jobs-go-bad-globalization-deunionization-and-declining-job-quality-in-the-north-american-auto-industry-9780813576053","title":"When Good Jobs Go Bad: Globalization  De-unionization  and Declining Job Quality in the North American Auto Industry","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom Chinese factories making cheap toys for export  to sweatshops in Bangladesh where name-brand garments are sewnstudies on the impact of globalization on workers have tended to focus on the worst jobs and the worst conditions. But in When Good Jobs Go Bad  Jeffrey Rothstein looks at the impact of globalization on a major industrythe North American auto industryto reveal that globalization has had a deleterious effect on even the most valued of blue-collar jobs.  Rothstein argues that the consolidation of the Mexican and U.S.-Canadian auto industries  the expanding number of foreign automakers in North America  and the spread of lean production have all undermined organized labor and harmed workers. Focusing on three General Motors plants assembling SUVsan older plant in Janesville  Wisconsin; a newer and more viable plant in Arlington  Texas; and a greenfield site (a brand-new  state-of-the-art facility) in Silao  MexicoWhen Good Jobs Go Bad shows how global competition has made nonstop  monotonous  standardized routines crucial for the survival of a plant  and it explains why workers and their local unions struggle to resist. For instance  in the United States  General Motors forced workers to accept intensified labor by threatening to close plants  which led local unions to adopt keep the plant open as their main goal. At its new factory in Silao  GM had hand-picked the unionone opposed to strikes and committed to labor-management cooperationbefore it hired the first worker.  Rothsteins engaging comparative analysis  which incorporates the viewpoints of workers  union officials  and management  sheds new light on labors loss of bargaining power in recent decades  and highlights the negative impact of globalization on all jobs  both good and bad  from the sweatshop to the assembly line.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45960560476213,"sku":"ByrdShop_0813576059","price":55.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780813576053.jpg?v=1788291018","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/when-good-jobs-go-bad-globalization-deunionization-and-declining-job-quality-in-the-north-american-auto-industry-9780813576053","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}