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Sarah Baird
SOC-100
April 15, 2018
Dr. Servatius
Outsourcing of the Big Three in the auto Industry
For generations, the auto industry has provided Americans stable, high-wage
employment for blue collared workers that allowed them to have middle-class living (Rothstein,
2008). In the State of Michigan, most of the lively hood was dependent on the auto industry for
the engineering, factory workers, and suppliers/vendors. Not only did the Auto industry
outsourced products they outsourced all fields of the industry. When these companies started
