[Smlr_net] The Price Workers Pay For Alabama's Jobs Boom

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Title:  The Price Workers Pay For Alabama's Jobs Boom Author: Leonard Lopate

*Source: * WNYC

*Date:* April 3, 2017

Summary:  Bloomberg Businessweek reporter Peter Waldman http://www.wnyc.org/people/peter-waldman/ joins us to discuss his recent cover story, “Inside Alabama’s Auto Jobs Boom: Cheap Wages, Little Training, Crushed Limbs.” https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-03-23/inside-alabama-s-auto-jobs-boom-cheap-wages-little-training-crushed-limbs Waldman investigates the burgeoning auto parts industry in the rural American South, particularly in Alabama, which has been referred to as the “New Detroit.” Link: http://bit.ly/2o5jBlV ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Eugene McElroy, Library Associate James Carey Library, School of Management and Labor Relations Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey 50 Labor Center Way, New Brunswick NJ 08901 848-932-9513 smlrlibrary@work.rutgers.edu http://smlr.rutgers.edu/carey-library