Historiography: The Original Franco-American Affair
If divine foreign intervention did not come in time for an American automaker, the company in question would have probably ceased to exist by 1982.
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Historiography: The Assembly Lines Across The Upper Midwest
There are now generations of Americans who have forgotten that there was a mighty production facility in their community. Though some of them have not seen the wrecking ball, others either resemble a lay of wasteland or have been built to unrecognizable specifications.
Historiography: The American Compact Car
Tweet Ford Falcon – All Photos by Randy Stern By the Fall of 1959, the North American automotive industry came to their senses. The rise of Volkswagen ushered in a period where the domestic automotive industry had to respond to a swath of smaller imported automobiles penetrating sales. Not to mention the loss of several …
Historiography: The Last of The Independents
Tweet The idea of a merger was to bring two entities together, find synergies between the two and eventually create a single path towards success. This is a concept that business students study through cases in their coursework. When it comes to practice, the textbook lesson would get lost in translation. Yet, somehow, the merged …
Ghosts Along the Assembly Line – The Hometown Edition
TweetGrowing up in Southern California, I was blessed with reminders that I did live in a form of paradise. Paradise is a relative term. Normally, that would mean perfect weather year-round, leisure opportunities within minutes of your doorstep and an infinite quantity of sustenance. For me, it meant that I lived in a city just …