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Towards a New Map of Automobile Manufacturing in Europe?

New Production Concepts and Spatial Restructuring

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  • © 1995

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Editors:
  1. Ray Hudson

    1. Department of Geography, University of Durham, Durham, UK

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  2. Eike W. Schamp

    1. Institut für Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeographie, Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XVII
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  2. New Challenges to the Automobile Production Systems in Europe

    • Peter Dicken, Ray Hudson, Eike W. Schamp
    Pages 1-20

  3. National and International Regulatory Framework: The Politics of European Automobile Production and Trade

    • David Sadler
    Pages 21-37

  4. “Europeanisation” in the Automotive Components Sector and Its Implications for State and Locality

    • David Sadler, Ash Amin
    Pages 39-61

  5. The Japanese, the European Market and the Automobile Industry in the United Kingdom

    • Ray Hudson
    Pages 63-91

  6. The German Automobile Production System Going European

    • Eike W. Schamp
    Pages 93-116

  7. The Italian Automobile Industry and the Case of Fiat: One Country, One Company, One Market?

    • Sergio Conti, Aldo Enrietti
    Pages 117-145

  8. Competitive Strategies in the World Market: The Case of Renault and the Emergence of a European Group?

    • Julien Savary
    Pages 147-172

  9. The Restructuring of the Swedish Automobile Production System

    • Anders Malmberg
    Pages 173-194

  10. Multi-purpose Vehicles, a New Opportunity for the Periphery? Lessons from the Ford\VW Project (Portugal)

    • João Ferrão, Mário Vale
    Pages 195-217

  11. Interdependent and Uneven Development in the Spatial Reorganisation of the Automobile Production Systems in Europe

    • Ray Hudson, Eike W. Schamp
    Pages 219-243

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 245-270
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About this book

This book is the product of four years of collaborative work within the framework of the European Science Foundation's Regional and Urban Restructuring in Europe (RURE) programme. With one exception, all of the chapters have been prepared by participants in RURE - the exception being that commissioned from Conti and Enrietti on Fiat and Italy to provide a fuller coverage of changes in the main automobile producing companies and countries of Europe. A - perhaps the - central theme around which the RURE programme was conceived is that the restructuring of the production system lies at the heart of the changing map of Europe. Equally, it continues to be the case that the automobile industry lies at the cutting edge of the search for viable new models of production. Some eighty years ago the automobile industry occupied a pivotal position in the transition from craft to mass production - indeed "Fordism" came to denote not just a particular micro-economic model of production organisation in the factory but a macro-scale model of economic development, characterized by a particular pattern of relations between mass production, mass consumption and national state regulation. From the late 1960s, however, it became increasingly clear that Fordism as a macro-scale model of advanced capitalist development was reaching its limits.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Geography, University of Durham, Durham, UK

    Ray Hudson

  • Institut für Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeographie, Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

    Eike W. Schamp

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Towards a New Map of Automobile Manufacturing in Europe?

  • Book Subtitle: New Production Concepts and Spatial Restructuring

  • Editors: Ray Hudson, Eike W. Schamp

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-79471-1

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1995

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-79473-5Published: 21 December 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-79471-1Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 269

  • Topics: Geography, general, R & D/Technology Policy, Automotive Engineering

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