NAFTA
What caused the fall of Detroit and how do we fix it?
Samuel Edwards
Elijah Roberts
One idea is to turn the uninhabited neighborhoods into communal farms.
Brayden Davis
you know the answer
Charles Bailey
Perhaps fall caused by too high requirements of workers unions.
Easton Campbell
What does Niger have to do with it?
David Reed
Free Trade
Juan Ortiz
>catalyst-journal.com
I'll storytime the full piece when my gf gets home, I left the journal in the car and I don't have access to the online article to share.
Carson Collins
John White
basically he breaks down how japanese/european manufacturers were able to better compete and how the cappies basically shot themselves in the foot in an attempt to destroy labor organizing.
Japanese cars were on average ~$2000 cheaper. The wage difference between Japanese and American workers accounted for a cheaper price of ~$500, but it took american plants 30+ more hours per car which offset wages significantly. Tarriffs alone more than made up the difference ($700).
Not only were they cheaper but they kept adding new features american manufacturers lagged behind. This goes directly back to the inneficiency of the big three model in comparison with the flexible model in Japan/Europe. The worst part is that the Japanese and Europeans literally copied the pre-war fordist model which made the big three so dominant in the first place. Problem was that you needed to continue to improve on working conditions, wages, and benefits as this model was highly vulnerable to strike action.
Juan Foster
The numbers I "quote" I believe come from the fist major auto crisis of the 70s and 80s that lead to the inevitable deindustrialization of detroit and the rust belt. The auto companies abandoned the fordist model model of constantly improving living standards and guaranteed employment and responded to the inevitable labor action by abandoning the flexible fordist factory model.