Doctoral Dissertation Research: Globalization and Job Movement in the Automobile Industry, 1970-2006

博士论文研究：全球化与汽车行业的就业流动，1970-2006

• 批准号: 0726836
• 负责人: Beverly Silver
• 金额: $ 0.75万
• 依托单位: Johns Hopkins University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-08-15 至 2009-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0726836&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Globalization; Job

Title: Doctoral Dissertation Research: Globalization and Job Movement in the Automobile Industry, 1970-2006Institution: Johns Hopkins UniversityPrincipal Investigator: Beverly SilverCo-Principal Investigator: Nicole AschoffA recurrent theme expressed in academia, policy circles and the popular media is that globalization has a 'devastating and inescapable' impact on high-wage manufacturing jobs. Scholars argue that manufacturing jobs are moving to low-wage sites at breakneck speed, leaving behind a wasteland of joblessness and insecurity in countries like the U.S. Yet, the case of the global auto industry belies this stark picture. Automobile manufacturers are both moving into and out of high wage countries. In particular, foreign auto firms are investing heavily in the U.S. where wages are among the highest in the world. What explains this anomalous pattern of job movement in the auto industry? Why are companies continuing to build and expand plants in the U.S. despite the close proximity of low wage sites like Mexico? This dissertation will address these questions through a detailed study of capital mobility in the U.S. auto industry. Drawing on research in historical sociology, labor, geography and political economy of the world system, this dissertation will produce a detailed picture of the overall pattern of automobile job movement into and out of the U.S. over the past three decades, and provide the most plausible explanation for the pattern uncovered. The project will utilize a mixed-methods approach that includes the construction of a time-series database that tracks plant movement into and out of the U.S. since 1970, and the completion of two extended case studies of automotive component manufacturers. The findings of this research will be of interest to sociologists, and to workers and policy makers in both developed and developing countries for three main reasons: First, the project will provide much needed empirical evidence for evaluating current debates amongst social scientists studying job movement, globalization and labor movements. Second, it will provide a conceptually grounded framework for analyzing job movement; this framework challenges the primacy of wages and labor costs in determining where jobs move by considering the complex interaction of local, national and global factors in shaping the geographical trajectories of auto firms. As a result, the dissertation will help automobile workers to assess the possibilities and constraints in organizing for better working conditions in today's political-economic climate. Finally, the project has important policy implications, given that job movement and outsourcing are of crucial interest in both developed and developing countries. By studying broad patterns of job movement and the inner mechanisms of agency that determine these patterns, the dissertation will provide a better understanding of where jobs are moving and the reasons why they are moving there. This is an essential step in developing policies that attract and sustain quality jobs in an increasingly competitive global economy.

职务：博士论文研究：汽车行业的全球化和工作运动，1970- 2006年，施工：约翰·霍普金斯大学普里卡·普里卡·康卡尔（Johns Hopkins University Principal）研究员：贝弗利·西尔弗科·帕克 - 帕卡尔帕尔（Beverly Silverco-Principal）研究者：妮可·阿斯乔夫（Nicole Aschoffa）的重复主题在学术界，政策圈子，政策圈子和流行的媒体上表明，全球化的全球化具有“毁灭性的作业”和“造成了巨大的效果”，该作业既易于又构成了富有影响力的工作。学者认为，制造业的工作正在以惊人的速度转移到低薪地点，留下了在美国等国家的失业和不安全感的荒原，但全球汽车行业的案例掩盖了这一鲜明的情况。汽车制造商都搬入高工资国家。特别是，外国汽车公司在美国的工资最高的美国投资。是什么解释了汽车行业的这种工作运动方式？尽管像墨西哥这样的低工资地点附近，但为什么公司仍在美国继续建造和扩展工厂？本文将通过对美国汽车行业的资本流动性进行详细研究来解决这些问题。借鉴了世界体系的历史社会学，劳动，地理和政治经济学的研究，这项论文将在过去三十年中详细介绍汽车工作进出美国的整体模式，并为未覆盖的模式提供最合理的探索。该项目将利用一种混合方法方法，其中包括建造一个时间序列数据库，该数据库自1970年以来跟踪植物运动进出的植物运动，以及完成了两项对汽车组件制造商的扩展案例研究。这项研究的发现将引起社会学家的关注，以及发达国家和发展中国家的工人和政策制定者的重要原因：首先，该项目将提供急需的经验证据，以评估研究工作运动，全球化和劳工运动的社会科学家之间的当前辩论。其次，它将提供一个概念上的框架来分析工作运动；该框架挑战工资和人工成本的首要地位，以确定工作在塑造汽车公司地理轨迹时的地方，国家和全球因素的复杂相互作用，从而确定工作的何处。结果，论文将有助于汽车工人评估在当今政治经济气候下组织更好工作条件的可能性和限制。最后，鉴于工作和外包在发达国家和发展中国家都具有关键的兴趣，该项目具有重要的政策意义。通过研究工作移动的广泛模式和确定这些模式的代理机制的内部机制，论文将更好地理解工作的发展位置以及他们搬到那里的原因。这是制定在竞争日益激烈的全球经济中吸引和维持高质量工作的政策的重要步骤。