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The ability of both textile and auto workers to make substantial and durable gains at the end of the innovation phase suggests that the monop­olistic windfall profits reaped by the innovator in any given product cycle also creates favorable conditions (at least the material resources) for stable la…

The combination of these strategies - the spatial fix and the tech­nological/organizational fix - may be leading to the re-consolidation of a spatially bifurcated process. On the one hand, new innovations in or­ganization and technology, to the extent they can be monopolized by the innovators, prov…

[...] the windfall profits that ac­cru ed to U.S. automakers helped them underwrite a stable lab or-capital accord and mass consumption social contract that lasted for more than four decades after the CIO struggles of the 1930s. In contrast, the lower profit levels associated with the intense compe…

Yet, to the extent that the main trend in the world automobile indus­try is toward lean-and-dual production, then the most likely sites of future autoworker labor unrest will be among the lower-tier workers in the sub­contracting system. Yet, in these sites, strong grievances do not go hand in hand…

The Japanese auto makers brought to these sites many of the organiza­tional practices of automobile production in Japan. These practices spread still further as U.S. and Western European automobile firms responded to the Japanese competitive threat by selectively emulating Japanese orga­nizational …