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This book chronicles the divergent growth trends in car production in Belgium and Spain. It delves into how European integration, high wages, and the demise of GM and Ford led to plant closings in Belgium. Next, it investigates how lower wages and the expansion strategies of Western European automak...
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Palgrave Macmillan,
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| Publisher Address: | Cham : |
| Publication Dates: | [2019] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
This book chronicles the divergent growth trends in car production in Belgium and Spain. It delves into how European integration, high wages, and the demise of GM and Ford led to plant closings in Belgium. Next, it investigates how lower wages and the expansion strategies of Western European automakers stimulated expansion in the Spanish auto industry. Finally, it offers three alternate scenarios regarding how further EU expansion and Brexit may potentially reshape the geographic footprint of European car production over the next ten years. In sum, this book utilizes history to help expand t |
| Carrier Form: | ix, 452 pages ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9783030174309 3030174301 |
| Index Number: | HD9710 |
| CLC: |
F455.164 F456.464 |
| Call Number: | F456.464/J171 |