GGR221H1 Lecture Notes - Keiretsu, Lean Manufacturing, Ministry Of International Trade And Industry
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Lecture 5: industrial restructuring, post-fordism and the canadian automobile industry. 3. the history of the canadian automobile industry. Automobile industry very important to canada, key to escaping the staples trap. Gm, chrysler, ford was key 3 but today many others. Last several decades: a crisis in the canadian and us automobile industry. Rise of a new model of production, some call post-fordism. History of auto-industry prior to the 1960s, canadian industry separate even when cars made by american companies in canada, being made for canadian market. Why? because canada had tariffs on automobiles and parts prior to 1960s. = two functionally separate systems but wasn"t working very well. Industry began to decline- not producing enough cars in canada with demand. So they struck a roman commission bladen commission (1961) who said that problem was small size of domestic market. Solution was to rationalize entire na auto-system- an integrated manufacturing across 2 countries.