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Transportation History

The North American Auto Industry since NAFTA

edited by Greig Mordue & Dimitry Anastakis

Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Initial publish date
Oct 2024
Category
History, 20th Century, Labor & Industrial Relations, Post-Confederation (1867-)
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9781487527365
    Publish Date
    Oct 2024
    List Price
    $90.00
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781487527372
    Publish Date
    Sep 2024
    List Price
    $39.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781487527396
    Publish Date
    Oct 2024
    List Price
    $39.95

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The auto sector is North America’s most iconic of industries. Since the North American Free Trade Agreement came into existence in 1994, the sector has undergone tremendous change: escalating concerns around climate change, advances in electric and automated vehicles, deindustrialization/reindustrialization, and the rise of low-cost locations as hubs for manufacturing.

 

The North American Auto Industry since NAFTA examines the issues that have preoccupied the development of policy associated with the manufacture of automobiles in North America. The collection addresses the punctuations that have afflicted the industry since NAFTA’s implementation as well as the slower, incremental evolutions that have also occurred. Several aspects of automobility and the industry are explored, including but not limited to the Canadian, American, and Mexican automotive sectors and their evolution and interaction under evolving trade regimes. The book analyses issues surrounding labour, technology, trade policy, regional development, the environment, and broader societal impacts of the automobile. It also draws on the expertise of a wide cross-section of industry experts and scholars to provide readers with a deeper understanding of the automotive industry and its central role in North America’s economic, business, and political landscape.

About the authors

Greig Mordue is an associate professor and the ArcelorMittal Dofasco Chair in Advanced Manufacturing Policy in the W Booth School of Engineering Practice in the Faculty of Engineering at McMaster University.

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Dimitry Anastakis teaches history at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario. A scholar of postwar Canada, his primary research examines Canada's role in the North American auto industry. He is the author of Auto Pact: Creating a Borderless North American Auto Industry, 1960-1971 (University of Toronto Press, 2005) and edited The Sixties: Passion, Politics and Style (McGill-Queens University Press, 2008. His work has appeared in various academic journals and magazines such as The Walrus.

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