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Trade Review"[
When Good Jobs Go Bad] presents an automobile industry in decline. It begins with the North American Free Trade Agreement and recounts dramatic changes in employment and in the work environments at GM, Ford, and Chrysler … Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty." * Choice *
"Ultimately, U.S., Mexican, and for that matter Chinese workers will write the next chapters in the evolution of the global auto industry. But for right now, Rothstein’s book offers a powerful analysis of how those good jobs went so bad." * Perspectives on Work *
"
When Good Jobs Go Bad is an excellent study: strategically designed, executed well, historically grounded, theoretically fruitful, gracefully written, and blessedly free from jargon... Best of all, it furnishes students with a vibrant and contemporary examples of C. Wright Mills' 'sociological imagination' revealing the complex and unhappy intersections of biography and history in the lives of automobile workers." * Contemporary Sociology *
"An important and insightful intervention in the discussions of industrial upgrading and the auto industry, Rothstein provides a striking critique of lean production and the decline of good jobs." -- Nancy Plankey-Videla * author of We Are in This Dance Together *
"It’s not just McDonald’s and Walmart. Rothstein brilliantly illuminates how even auto assembly jobs—still among the best blue collar jobs—have been steadily degraded by global corporations. An essential contribution to understanding work in the global economy." -- Chris Tilly * director, Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, UCLA *
"
When Good Jobs Go Bad questions whether the tide is rising at all....This is a sobering read, but the final chapter explores some more hopeful possibilities....Perhaps the main lesson from this book is that there is no trade-off between workplace control and influence. When unions sacrifice the first, they risk losing both." * Work, Employment and Society *
"Rothstein’s book provides us with much of what we need to understand why wages and the quality of work life in the US and Mexican auto industries has deteriorated since the late 1970s." * Journal of World-Systems Research *
"[Rothstein's] important point is that there is nothing natural or inevitable about the form that globalization takes; the global economy is a product of political choices." * American Journal of Sociology *
"[
When Good Jobs Go Bad] presents an automobile industry in decline. It begins with the North American Free Trade Agreement and recounts dramatic changes in employment and in the work environments at GM, Ford, and Chrysler … Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty." * Choice *
"Ultimately, U.S., Mexican, and for that matter Chinese workers will write the next chapters in the evolution of the global auto industry. But for right now, Rothstein’s book offers a powerful analysis of how those good jobs went so bad." * Perspectives on Work *
"
When Good Jobs Go Bad is an excellent study: strategically designed, executed well, historically grounded, theoretically fruitful, gracefully written, and blessedly free from jargon... Best of all, it furnishes students with a vibrant and contemporary examples of C. Wright Mills' 'sociological imagination' revealing the complex and unhappy intersections of biography and history in the lives of automobile workers." * Contemporary Sociology *
"An important and insightful intervention in the discussions of industrial upgrading and the auto industry, Rothstein provides a striking critique of lean production and the decline of good jobs." -- Nancy Plankey-Videla * author of We Are in This Dance Together *
"It’s not just McDonald’s and Walmart. Rothstein brilliantly illuminates how even auto assembly jobs—still among the best blue collar jobs—have been steadily degraded by global corporations. An essential contribution to understanding work in the global economy." -- Chris Tilly * director, Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, UCLA *
"
When Good Jobs Go Bad questions whether the tide is rising at all....This is a sobering read, but the final chapter explores some more hopeful possibilities....Perhaps the main lesson from this book is that there is no trade-off between workplace control and influence. When unions sacrifice the first, they risk losing both." * Work, Employment and Society *
"Rothstein’s book provides us with much of what we need to understand why wages and the quality of work life in the US and Mexican auto industries has deteriorated since the late 1970s." * Journal of World-Systems Research *
"[Rothstein's] important point is that there is nothing natural or inevitable about the form that globalization takes; the global economy is a product of political choices." * American Journal of Sociology *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments1 Introduction: Three Auto Plants in the Global Economy2 The Intensification of Work under Lean Production3 Whipsawed! Local Unions Fight for Jobs in the United States4 Greenfield Opportunity: Orchestrated Labor Relations in Silao5 Globalization and Union Decline6 Conclusion: Toward a Better-Regulated Global EconomyNotesReferencesIndex
