Book contents
- National Policy, Global Giants: how Australia built and lost its Automotive Industry
- National Policy, Global Giants: how Australia built and lost its Automotive Industry
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 The Triumph of the Automobile: and Its Incipient Decline
- 2 From Revolution to Revolution: a Changing Automotive Industry
- 3 The Vehicle Manufacturers: a Controlling Global Semi-oligarchy
- 4 A Highly Disciplined Global Partnership: the Components Suppliers
- 5 Tense Relationships: the Automotive Industry and Government
- 6 Enthusiastic Adopters: Growth and Change in the Australian Car Market
- 7 The End of a Life cycle the Rise and Fall of the Australian Light Vehicle Industry
- 8 Distant Children: Australian Vehicle Manufacturers and Their Foreign Parents
- 9 The Australian Component Suppliers: Doomed by being so Sub-scale
- 10 From Consistency to Contradiction: Australian Government Automotive Policy
- 11 Government Support Policy and Sectoral Analysis: Lessons Learned
- Index
Introduction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 December 2019
- National Policy, Global Giants: how Australia built and lost its Automotive Industry
- National Policy, Global Giants: how Australia built and lost its Automotive Industry
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 The Triumph of the Automobile: and Its Incipient Decline
- 2 From Revolution to Revolution: a Changing Automotive Industry
- 3 The Vehicle Manufacturers: a Controlling Global Semi-oligarchy
- 4 A Highly Disciplined Global Partnership: the Components Suppliers
- 5 Tense Relationships: the Automotive Industry and Government
- 6 Enthusiastic Adopters: Growth and Change in the Australian Car Market
- 7 The End of a Life cycle the Rise and Fall of the Australian Light Vehicle Industry
- 8 Distant Children: Australian Vehicle Manufacturers and Their Foreign Parents
- 9 The Australian Component Suppliers: Doomed by being so Sub-scale
- 10 From Consistency to Contradiction: Australian Government Automotive Policy
- 11 Government Support Policy and Sectoral Analysis: Lessons Learned
- Index
Summary
Introduces the concept of a life cycle in powered land transport, starting with the growth, maturity and partial decline of the railways in the United Kingdom (their birthplace) and the United States (their greatest extent). Tracks the spectacular rise of the automobile, its mature phase and possible incipient decline in its present form.
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- National Policy, Global GiantsHow Australia Built and Lost its Automotive Industry, pp. 1 - 6Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020