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In the United States and in Italy, and worldwide, Detroit and Turin are known as the “Motor City” and la città dell’auto respectively—two metropolises that have developed around the manufactured product that best symbolized modernity: the automobile. As so high a proportion of all the cars produced in the course of the twentieth century was made in these two cities, they have retained this reputation well after the bulk of the automotive industry had actually abandoned them. General Motors (GM), Chrysler, Ford, and FIAT—the major companies that historically characterized the two “Motor Cities”—are now global corporations that spread their operations across several continents, even though they maintain links with their original headquarters.
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Pizzolato, N. (2013). Introduction. In: Challenging Global Capitalism. Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137311702_1
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