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At the Crossroads : Middle America and the Battle to Save the Car Industry by Ted Evanoff and Abe Aamidor (2010, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherECW Press

ISBN-101550229044

ISBN-139781550229042

eBay Product ID (ePID)73353569

Product Key Features

Book TitleAt the Crossroads : Middle America and the Battle to Save the Car Industry

Number of Pages390 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2010

TopicIndustries / Automobile Industry, Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Development / General, Economic Conditions

IllustratorYes

GenreSocial Science, Business & Economics

AuthorTed Evanoff, Abe Aamidor

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.2 in

Item Weight26.7 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

Reviews"This book is at once an American industrial history, financial assessment, cultural analysis, economic inspection, and global forecast. Evanoff and Aamidor's work deserves praise for its meticulous reporting and thorough research." -- Christian Science Monitor, "This book is at once an American industrial history, financial assessment, cultural analysis, economic inspection, and global forecast. Evanoff and Aamidor's work deserves praise for its meticulous reporting and thorough research." — Christian Science Monitor, "Traveling around mostly among a network of small Indiana cities that are, or were, satellites of the Detroit auto industry, the two authors fill in a rich picture of the challenges facing these communities and the obstacles that impede economic redevelopment." -- Blographia Literaria, "This book is at once an American industrial history, financial assessment, cultural analysis, economic inspection, and global forecast. Evanoff and Aamidor's work deserves praise for its meticulous reporting and thorough research." —Christian Science Monitor, "This book is for those interested in a people-focused perspective of Detroit's collapse. It will complement the deeper look into the turning points in U.S. auto industry history provided by Paul Ingrassia's Crash Course: The American Automobile Industry's Road from Glory to Disaster." -- Library Journal, "This book is at once an American industrial history, financial assessment, cultural analysis, economic inspection, and global forecast. Evanoff and Aamidor's work deserves praise for its meticulous reporting and thorough research....Aamidor and Evanoff astutely show how the challenges of the small-town entrepreneur are directly connected to the fortunes of communities that have relied for generations, at least tangentially, on the domestic automotive giants." -- The Christian Science Monitor, "This book is for those interested in a people-focused perspective of Detroit's collapse. It will complement the deeper look into the turning points in U.S. auto industry history provided by Paul Ingrassia's Crash Course: The American Automobile Industry's Road from Glory to Disaster." —Library Journal, "This book is for those interested in a people-focused perspective of Detroit's collapse. It will complement the deeper look into the turning points in U.S. auto industry history provided by Paul Ingrassia's Crash Course: The American Automobile Industry's Road from Glory to Disaster." — Library Journal

Dewey Edition22

Dewey Decimal338.4/76292220973

SynopsisWhile the background and context of the book is the current crisis in the American automobile industry, the focus is on Kokomo, home to three generations of autoworkers. This is the story of the union leaders, the salaried plant managers, the elected local officials as well as ordinary citizens of the town. In telling their story, the authors succinctly explain how the Detroit autombobile industry stumbled and how this affected millions of people in the US, Canada and Mexico. The populist narrative is ultimately an exhortation to save the stumbling industry., The U.S. auto industry has struck a brick wall. Can it get back on the road to recovery? At the Crossroads: Middle America and the Battle to Save the Car Industry argues that the Obama administration missed an historic opportunity in 2009 to launch a Manhattan Project-style effort to save not only Detroit, but the entire manufacturing base in Middle America. Abe Aamidor and Ted Evanoff explain how Washington s intervention fell short and how it is holding back American economic recovery. The authors take a thoughtful look at the root causes behind the auto industry s crash, including disastrous labor contracts such as the 1950s 3Treaty of Detroit, which set the stage for crushing legacy costs; Wall Street s predatory financial practices ushered in under the Reagan administration; and a largely unregulated free trade regime that undermined the competitiveness of American manufacturing. At the Crossroads tells the story of Detroit s collapse and a failed national industrial policy from the point of view of those most affected by it ? the factory workers, small business owners, and mayors of small manufacturing towns like Kokomo, Marion, and Bedford in Indiana, the number two auto manufacturing state after Michigan and the number one manufacturing state overall based on a percentage of population. Washington could debate the pros and cons of a national industrial policy and an auto industry bailout ad nauseum, but it was the people in small towns in Middle America who would live or die by the policy decisions of their distant national leaders., A compelling look at the declining auto industry in America and how it has affected millions of people in the US, Canada and Mexico.

LC Classification NumberHD9710