San Antonio College Library

No enterprise is more important to the world economy than the auto industry, and in the U.S., Japan, and Germany, three auto companies are so dominant that their products have become synonymous with their home nations: General Motors, Toyota, and Volkswagen. Yet each of these three companies faces a profoundly uncertain future. Their very success - their size, their scope, their highly institutionalized ways - threatens them in this new age of an...

Publisher's description: Recasting labor studies in a long-term and global framework, the book draws on a major new database on world labor unrest to show how local labor movements have been related to world-scale political, economic and social processes since the late-nineteenth century. Through an in-depth empirical analysis of select global industries it demonstrates how the main locations of labor unrest have shifted from country to country together...

In an eye-opening collection of real-life stories, Aiming Higher profiles courageous CEOs, managers, and employees who view social challenges not as burdens but as opportunities - to create new markets, build motivated work forces, and attract loyal customers. They are aiming higher. Who are these business heroes and heroines? Each year, The Business Enterprise Trust - founded by television writer and producer Norman Lear - honors five companies or...