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Part I discussed arguments that economic restructuring undermined labour. Workers, it is suggested, suffer a geographical dispersal as capital mobility increases and a social dispersal as relations change between and within firms. Chapter 5 advocated a comparative, cross-sectoral investigation of these claims. This chapter begins this by looking at the auto industry.

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Dunn, B. (2004). Automobiles. In: Global Restructuring and the Power of Labour. International Political Economy Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230000667_6

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