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Editor's choice Manufacturing resiliency: economic restructuring and automotive manufacturing in the Great Lakes region

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  • Tod D. Rutherford
  • John Holmes

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Through a case study of the Great Lakes region automotive industry spanning the USA–Canada international border, this article critically reassesses the concept of regional resiliency and the sustainability of the recent resurgence of American manufacturing. We argue that regional resiliency needs to be reframed around regional integration into global production networks and the restructuring of workplace governance especially with regard to the significant ‘recalibration’ of labour relations reflected in declining rates of unionisation, lowered labour costs and more ‘flexible’ employment relations. The region is no longer as dominant in North American automotive manufacturing as it once was and must respond to increasing competition from emergent auto-making regions in the southern USA and Mexico.

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  • Tod D. Rutherford & John Holmes, 2014. "Editor's choice Manufacturing resiliency: economic restructuring and automotive manufacturing in the Great Lakes region," Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, Cambridge Political Economy Society, vol. 7(3), pages 359-378.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:cjrecs:v:7:y:2014:i:3:p:359-378.
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    1. Mordue, Greig, 2017. "Electricity prices and industrial competitiveness: A case study of final assembly automobile manufacturing in the United States and Canada," Energy Policy, Elsevier, vol. 111(C), pages 32-40.
    2. Nichola Lowe & Greg Schrock & Ranita Jain & Maureen Conway, 2021. "Genesis at work: Advancing inclusive innovation through manufacturing extension," Local Economy, London South Bank University, vol. 36(3), pages 224-241, May.
    3. Judith Wiemann & Martina Fuchs, 2018. "The export of Germany’s “secret of success†dual technical VET: MNCs and multiscalar stakeholders changing the skill formation system in Mexico," Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, Cambridge Political Economy Society, vol. 11(2), pages 373-386.

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