JAPANESE AUTO TRANSPLANTS IN THE HEARTLAND
Corporatism and Community
SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS AND SOCIAL CHANGE
An Aldine de Gruyter Series of Texts and Monographs
EDITED BY
Michael Useem James D. Wright
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Dean Knudsen and Jo Ann L. Miller (eds.), Abused and Battered: Social and Legal Responses to Family Violence
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Steven L. Nock, The Costs of Privacy: Surveillance and Reputation in America
Talcott Parsons on National Socialism(Edited and with an Introduction by Uta Gerhardt)
Carolyn C. and Robert Perrucci, Dena B. and Harry R. Targ, Plant Closings: International Context and Social Costs
Robert Perrucci and Harry R. Potter (eds.), Networks of Power: Organizational Actors at the National, Corporate, and Community Levels
Robert Perrucci, Japanese Auto Transplants in the Heartland: Corporatism and Community
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Perrucci, Robert.
Japanese auto transplants in the heartland : coporatism and community / Robert Perrucci.
p.cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-202-30529-5 (alk. paper)
1. Automobile industry and tradeUnited StatesForeign ownershipCase studies. 2. Corporations, JapaneseUnit ed StatesLocationCase studies. 3. Middle WestEconomic conditions. I. Title.
HD9710.U52P47 1994
| 338.8.872920973dc20 | 93-50053
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ISBN 13: 978-0-202-30529-5 (pbk)
To Carolyn, my partner,
and to Celeste, Mark, Chris, Alissa
and especially MartinThe idea for this book was formed during the early 1980s when I was studying the impact of plant closings on displaced workers and communities. At the same time that some communities were struggling with the high unemployment and reduced revenue that accompanies plant closings, other communities were aggressively competing to attract new business. In one community, workers who were displaced by a plant closing expected to receive retraining funds through the Job Training and Partnership Act (JTPA), only to find that the state had committed all the JTPA funds to train new workers for a Japanese transplant.
Soon it became apparent that deindustrialization, job loss, and economically depressed communities were linked with the escalating interstate competition to provide multimillion dollar incentive packages for businesses to settle in their state. When Japanese automobile companies considered coming to the United States, they fueled the interstate competition for these large projects, which promised thousands of jobs and economic growth.
I would like to thank Richard Child Hill and Michael Useem for their support and encouragement to carry out this project on Japanese auto transplants. They helped me obtain a fellowship from the Center for Research in the Social and Behavioral Sciences at Purdue University, al lowing me to devote full time to my research. I am grateful to the School of Liberal Arts for its support of Center Fellowships.
Kathleen Cummings, William C. Green, and anonymous library staff at Middle Tennessee State University and Morehead State University helped in obtaining newspaper coverage about transplants in Tennessee and Kentucky.
My early writings about the political economy of auto transplants benefited from the critical reactions of Patricia Boling, David Caputo, David Fasenfest, Heidi Gottfried, Richard Hogan, Carolyn Perrucci, and Cynthia Stohl.
Robert Eichhorn was the first to read early drafts of the manuscript. His critical reading of the first two chapters helped to clarify the purposes of the book and alter its structure. Carol Bangert read the entire first draft with the critical eye of a journalist who lives in a transplant community.
Finally, I thank Candy Lawson for her special efforts in preparing the several drafts of the manuscript.
Robert Perrucci
