In the Rings of Saturn

Erscheinungsjahr 1993
ISBN: 978-0-19-507244-0
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 352 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 716 g

In this compelling, readable narrative, Joe Sherman explores virtually every aspect of the Saturn project, America's biggest and most publicized industrial success of the last decade. Here is the whole story - Saturn's mysterious beginnings inside General Motors in 1982; the site hunt that involved 38 states and ended in Spring Hill, Tennessee; the plant's construction and the transfer of 5,000 UAW members to a historic Southern backwater; and finally the small car's triumph in the marketplace.

Telling the story through the standpoint of dozens of characters, from local farmers, to inspired assembly line workers, to `car smarts and gut feel' engineers, Sherman brings to life a very American story of renewal and growth, of great hope and soured expectations, of greed and lost opportunities. And he reveals that if the USA wants to produce high quality products that the world will want to buy, it must begin to adopt methods similar to those used in making the Saturn car.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sherman, Joe

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Fertigungsindustrie Automobilindustrie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Transport- und Verkehrswirtschaft

Über Autor(innen)

Joe Sherman MBA is a freelance writer and occasional lecturer at his local college in Vermont. His previous books are: The House at Shelborne Farms (12,000 copies sold), A Thousand Voices (10,000 copies sold), and Fast Lane on a Dirt Road.