What is good for General Motors? [electronic resource] : solving America's industrial conundrum / Thomas A. Crumm.

ISBN:

9780875867793

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Author:

Crumm, Thomas A.

Personal Author:

Crumm, Thomas A.

Publication Information:

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 235 pages)

Contents:

Preface; Chapter 1. Setting the Stage; Chapter 2. 1903 and 1908: Henry Ford's Initial Back of the Envelope; Chapter 3. 1913: The Assembly Line Was a Reluctant Move; Chapter 4. 1941: The UAW Wins Favor of Neglected Line Workers; Chapter 5. 1950s and 1960s: Countering UAW and NADA Ambitions; Chapter 6. 1970s and 1980s: Financial-Criteria-Based Decisions Strip-Mine the Industrial Sector; Chapter 7. 1990s and 2000s: Three Dinosaurs Are Lured Across the Pacific; Chapter 8. Assessment of China's Industrial Sector; Chapter 9. Social and Legislative Hurdles.

Epilogue: CounterING the Pessimists in Funeral HomesAppendix 1. Table of the Evolution of Inefficiencies; Appendix 2. Bringing America's Auto Industry Back to Life; Index.

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Corporate Subject:

Ford Motor Company -- Management.

General Motors Corporation -- Management.

Subject Term:

Automobile industry and trade -- United States -- Management.

Industrial policy -- United States.

Geographic Term:

United States -- Economic policy.

Format:

Electronic Resources

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Publication Date:

2010

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Summary

An insider exposes the strategic decisions that have caused the foundation of America's industrial sector to crumble, then lays out a plan for its restoration. The author led GM Chairman John Smale's Scenario Planning Staff in the mid-1990s and Roger Smith's development of a Saturn expansion proposal in the late-1980s after a career in GM plant operations designing and managing manufacturing systems.