Beyond Mass Production: The Japanese System and Its Transfer to the U.S.

by Richard Florida and Martin Kenney

Book Overview

Not long ago, American manufacturing was in sharp decline. The Big Three carmakers closed dozens of plants, mostly in Michigan and other surrounding states, eliminating more than 250,000 jobs. Another quarter of a million workers lost their jobs in related industries. Now United States manufacturing is making a comeback--thanks, in part, to the transplanting of Japanese corporations of over 25 billion dollars worth of heavy industry and 100,000 jobs...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195071107
• ISBN13: 9780195071108
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.6" x 9.6"