Toyota City in Transition
- Springer Nature Singapore
- 2023
- Taschenbuch
- 248 Seiten
- ISBN 9789811698347
This informative monograph focuses on the city of Toyota, located in Aichi Prefecture, Japan. Aside from the fact that most Toyota passenger vehicles are produced there, generally little is known about its reality. Since the 1960s, the city has continuously attracted numerous jobseekers from distant rural areas. Owing to years of stable employment and settlement within local communities, once-new workers gradually build strong ties with their neighbours and actively participate in residential activities. This pattern of settlement provides a unique example of long-prosperous industrial cities, which deserves discussion against a backdrop of the present "de- industrializing" urban economies. Unfortunately, this favourable situation is now changing, despite the
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