Introduction
Centuries by centuries, life is becoming more and more convenient. For example, people don’t have to walk, they can take cars. In this way, vehicle is an important transportation in our lives. To make a car, chassis is the most necessary part because it consists of an internal framework that supports a man-made object in its construction and use. So, as a commodity, I think chassis is worth to discover. In addition, chassis is becoming more special and even has multiple categories. For instance, regular cars’ chassis is very different from racing cars’ chassis. In my opinion, there is a lot of knowledge I don’t know about how chassis play this kind of crucial roles in vehicle, meanwhile, it is very interesting and people can get lessons from the commodity, chassis. In the paper, I will first describe the history of chassis. As far as I know, there are multiple histories for different kind of vehicles. Sedan’s chassis faced a huge revolution and truck’s chassis are late to be globalized. There is also another new kind of chassis for a kind of racing car named go-kart. After that, I’m going to map the commodity chain to show the globalization of chassis and sites of where it is produced and people who purchase it. Thirdly, relations of production and consumption will be analyzed. It contains the component of chassis, the environmental issues and different human labors in the production line. Finally, the paper will come to focus on labors. I will demonstrate the inequality happened .between workers, who was helped or hurt by this commodity and people’s approaches to lessen the negative impacts.
Historical Background
As we know, car chassis is complicated through the development. To simplify, we can divide it into three parts. As we know, there are three main different cars at present. They are sedan, truck and racing car. For each of them, chassis are totally different because they have to overcome multiple highroads.