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Comeback; The Rise and Fall of the American Automobile Industry
by Paul Ingrassia, Joseph B. White (Contributor)
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In Comeback, Pulitzer Prize-winners Paul
Ingrassia and Joseph B. White take us to the boardrooms, the executive offices, and the
shop floors of the auto business to reconstruct, in riveting detail, how America's premier
industry stumbled, fell, and picked itself up again. The story begins in 1982,
when Honda started building cars in Marysville, Ohio, and the entire U.S. car
industry seemed to be on the brink of extinction. It ends just over a decade later, with a
remarkable turn of the tables, as Japan's car industry falters and America's Big Three
emerge as formidable global competitors.
Comeback is a story propelled by larger-than-life characters -- Lee
Iacocca, Henry Ford II, Don Petersen, Roger Smith, among many others -- and their greed,
pride, and sheer refusal to face facts. But it is also a story full of dedicated, unlikely
heroes who struggled to make the Big Three change before it was too late.
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The Machine That Changed the World : Based on the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 5-Million-Dollar 5-Year Study on the Future of the
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by James P. Womack (Contributor), Daniel Roos, Daniel Jones (Contributor)
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a revolution in the automotive industry. Comparing the western production methods with the
Japanese approach made clear, that only a revolution would be able to close the gap. In
the book of Womack, Jones and Roos the underlying principles of the
American and the Japanese car industry are described. By evaluating the "Lean
Manufacturing" principles of the Japanese car industry, all ahead Toyota with their
Toyota Production Systems (TPS), they draw the picture of a different way of producing
cars. The book was studied by all management layers in the automotive industry and
probably was a major cause for many events afterwards, like the introduction of
transplants in the U.S.... A clear must for everybody, who want to understand the
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Car : A Drama of the American Workplace
by Mary Walton
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Hardcover - 360 pages (June 1997)
W.W. Norton & Company; ISBN: 0393040801 ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.35 x 9.55 x 6.44 |
A whole book dedicated to the manufacture of a single model of car--and
not even a sexy model, such as a Lamborghini or a Rolls Royce, but a Ford Taurus! How
interesting could that be? In the hands of talented Mary Walton, it is very interesting
indeed. Walton spent more than two years inside the belly of the giant Ford Motor Company
researching the manufacture of the 1996 Taurus. Walton, who has written
extensively about management theory, brings a perceptive eye and a breezy style to her
critique of the automobile industry. In addition to the redesign of Ford's popular model,
Walton also examines the sometimes volatile relations between the company's engineering
staff and its designers, criticizes Ford's hierarchical management structure, and
questions the astounding number of upper-level executives recruited from the military and
their resulting martial management style.
The private lives of Ford employees likewise do not escape Walton's
critical eye. Twelve-hour days are common among Ford engineers, but the toll on their
personal lives is high. So critical is Mary Walton of Ford's management practices that,
upon seeing an early draft of Car, Ford revoked Walton's access to its top executives. For
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