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The automotive industry transition challenges and the labour organizations positions: the case of Portugal

What are professional needs and new work skills in the Italian automotive supply chain in regards to electric transition? Some research outcome on sample of Italian’s firms

The greening of the seaports’ road logistics: environmental and energy impacts of alternative fuels scenarios for the Genoa port

Global capital, electromobility, and productive restructuring: The political economy of the automotive industry in Mercosur

Díaz, J. D. R. (2025).  Global capital, electromobility, and productive restructuring: The political economy of the automotive industry in Mercosur. Gerpisa colloquium.

For over a decade, the automotive industry has been undergoing a disruptive transformation driven by the adoption of new production methods and the entry of new players, including both companies and countries, into vehicle manufacturing. This process reflects a structural transformation marked by the rise of electric vehicles (EVs), the use of lithium-ion batteries, and the integration of digital technologies—key elements of the new paradigm of sustainable transportation. Within this context, a renewed struggle for hierarchy in the energy transition emerges (Gracia Santos, Paz, Rísquez Ramos, 2024), generating new power dynamics in the configuration of global production and supply chains.

This global reconfiguration is transforming the socio-economic and environmental foundations underpinning the international division of labour, paving the way for an accumulation regime centred on “platform capitalism” (Srnicek, 2018) and a new global consensus—the “decarbonisation consensus”—that promotes the transition to a new energy matrix (Bringel and Svampa, 2023). read more

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