TY - BOOK AU - Aamidor,Abe AU - Evanoff,Ted TI - At the Crossroads: Middle America and the Battle to Save the Car Industry SN - 9781554906376 AV - HD9710 -- .A26 2010eb U1 - 338.4/76292220973 PY - 2010/// CY - Toronto PB - ECW Press KW - Automobile industry and trade -- Social aspects -- United States KW - Automobile industry and trade -- Indiana -- Kokomo KW - Deindustrialization -- Social aspects -- United States KW - Middle class -- United States KW - Automobile industry and trade -- United States KW - Kokomo (Ind.) -- Economic conditions KW - Electronic books N1 - Front Cover -- Front Flap -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1: The Perfect Storm -- CHAPTER 2: Dogs at the Gate -- CHAPTER 3: Their Year of Decision -- CHAPTER 4: Government Motors -- CHAPTER 5: UAW -- CHAPTER 6: Ciao! -- CHAPTER 7: What's Good for General Motors ... -- CHAPTER 8: Reuther's Ghost -- CHAPTER 9: Saving Our Cities -- CHAPTER 10: Electric Shock -- CHAPTER 11: What's Good for Wall Street . . . -- CHAPTER 12: Into the Brink -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Flap -- Back Cover N2 - The U.S. auto industry has struck a brick wall. Can it get back on the road to recovery? At the Crossroads: Middle America and the Battle to Save the Car Industry argues that the Obama administration missed an historic opportunity in 2009 to launch a Manhattan Project­style effort to save not only Detroit, but the entire manufacturing base in Middle America. Abe Aamidor and Ted Evanoff explain how Washington¹s intervention fell short and how it is holding back American economic recovery. The authors take a thoughtful look at the root causes behind the auto industry¹s crash, including disastrous labor contracts such as the 1950s¹ ³Treaty of Detroit,² which set the stage for crushing legacy costs; Wall Street¹s predatory financial practices ushered in under the Reagan administration; and a largely unregulated free trade regime that undermined the competitiveness of American manufacturing. At the Crossroads tells the story of Detroit¹s collapse and a failed national industrial policy from the point of view of those most affected by it ? the factory workers, small business owners, and mayors of small manufacturing towns like Kokomo, Marion, and Bedford in Indiana, the number two auto manufacturing state after Michigan and the number one manufacturing state overall based on a percentage of population. Washington could debate the pros and cons of a national industrial policy and an auto industry bailout ad nauseum, but it was the people in small towns in Middle America who would live or die by the policy decisions of their distant national leaders UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3028471 ER -