Foxconnisation of Automobile Manufacturing? Production Networks and Regimes of Production in the Electric Vehicle Industry in China

Boy Lüthje ()
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Boy Lüthje: South China University of Technology

Chapter Chapter 12 in Economic and Social Upgrading in Global Value Chains, 2022, pp 311-334 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The digitalizationDigitalisation of the automobile, the rapid emergence of new energy cars and of new mobility systems are driving accelerating restructuring of production models and value chains in the global automotive industry. Continuing structural overcapacity in car production, the frequent breakdown of car traffic and the related ecological crisis in megacities around the globe, as well as the continuing emission cheating scandals surrounding major automakers are driving a broad-ranging process of restructuring that puts into question the existing regime of capital accumulationCapital accumulation in the global car industry. In addition, the emerging forms of new and shared mobility undermine the model of private ownership as the dominant norm of consumption, on which the growth of the automotive industry had been based since the days of Henry Ford.

Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-87320-2_12

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