When Good Jobs Go Bad: Globalization, De-Unionization, and Declining Job Quality in the North American Auto Industry

by Jeffrey S. Rothstein

Book Overview

From Chinese factories making cheap toys for export, to sweatshops in Bangladesh where name-brand garments are sewn--studies 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 industry--the North American auto industry--to reveal that globalization has had a deleterious effect on even the most...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813576059
• ISBN13: 9780813576053
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 16 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 11 and higher