The Freeway Journey Landscape and Mobility in the Southern Auto Industry

The I-85 highway corridor through the American South has emerged as a key artery for the global auto industry over the last three decades. An influx of foreign capital has transformed the region into one of the world’s prime automobile manufacturing hubs. The easy mobility offered by I-85 and its tr...

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Published inTransfers Vol. 11; no. 1; pp. 27 - 47
Main Author Mohr, John E
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxford Berghahn Books, Inc 01.03.2021
Subjects
Automobile industry
Capitalism
Economic development
Factories
Foreign investments
Globalization
History
Industrial development
International economic relations
Modernism
Modernity
Nuclear power plants
Perdue, Sonny
Prosperity
Race relations
Roads & highways
Alabama
United States
South Korea
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Summary:The I-85 highway corridor through the American South has emerged as a key artery for the global auto industry over the last three decades. An influx of foreign capital has transformed the region into one of the world’s prime automobile manufacturing hubs. The easy mobility offered by I-85 and its tributary networks has been central to the economic and social transformation of the region. However, there are distinct limits and costs to this transformation that are frequently downplayed in the name of a technologically utopian approach to development. The I-85 corridor has facilitated the development of the auto industry in the American South, but it has also contributed greatly to the increasing capitalist exploitation of its people.
ISSN:2045-4813
2045-4821
DOI:10.3167/TRANS.2021.110103