When Good Jobs Go Bad : Rutgers University Press : 9780813576060 : 0813576067 : 16 Mar 2016 : From Chinese factories making cheap toys for export, to sweatshops in Bangladesh where name-brand garments are sewn&;studies on the impact of globalization on workers have tended to focus on the worst jobs and the worst conditions. But in When Good Jobs Go Bad, Jeffrey Rothstein looks at the impact of globalization on a major industry&;the North American auto industry&;to reveal that globalization has had a deleterious effect on even the most valued of blue-collar jobs. Rothstein argues that the consolidation of the Mexican and U.S.-Canadian auto industries, the expanding number of foreign automakers in North America, and the spread of lean production have all undermined organized labor and harmed workers. Focusing on three General Motors plants assembling SUVs&;an older plant in Janesville, Wisconsin; a newer and more viable plant in Arlington, Texas; and a &;greenfield site&; (a brand-new, s