Last year, Ford's share of the American car market dropped to 17.4 percent, its lowest level since the 1980's. Meanwhile, foreign automakers including Toyota and Nissan of Japan, Hyundai of South Korea, and BMW and Mercedes-Benz of Germany, which collectively had 60,000 workers at the North American plants last year, all are expanding, helping to offset the cutbacks announced by the Detroit companies.įor Ford, however, the surge by foreign automobile manufacturers only heightens the pressure to reverse a slide that began at the beginning of the decade. Womack, an author and expert in manufacturing efficiency. As Detroit has cut back, foreign automobile manufacturers have created tens of thousands of jobs at new factories from Ontario to Ohio and across the American South to Baja California.īecause of that growth, there was no net loss in North American automotive jobs in 2005, according to James P.
But the industry's retrenchment does not spell the end of automotive manufacturing in the United States, Canada and Mexico - indeed, far from it.
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