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1 Online-Ressource (x, 510 pages)
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ISBN:
9780511563652
Series Statement:
Studies in modern capitalism
Content:
This book retells the history of Western industrialization, revealing possibilities unexplored in the nineteenth century, variants of which have come to transform present day economies. It shows that economic actors have historically been more aware of the great strategic choices they faced than standard theory credits them with being, and this surprising acuity allows them to imagine and put into practice solutions which current theories of industrial organization have scarcely anticipated. The book is therefore at one and the same time a contribution to a substantive revision of the history of mechanized production and a propaedeutic in a form of explanation that approximates the knowledge of the actor to the knowledge of the theorist. The volume groups essays presented by a multinational team of historians and social scientists drawing on intensive primary research on a wide range of firms, regions, sectors and national economies in Western Europe and the United States from the eighteenth century to the 1990s
Note:
Papers from an international seminar on "Historical alternatives to mass production
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
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Fashion as flexible production : the strategies of the Lyons silk merchants in the eighteenth century
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Rise and decline of flexible production : the cutlery industry of Solingen since the eithteenth century
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Manufacturing flexibility in nineteenth-century Switzerland : social and institutional foundations of decline and revival in calico-printing and watchmaking
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Between flexibility and mass production : strategic ambiguity and selective adaption in the British engineering industry, 1830-1914
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Lost paradigm : an Italian metalworking empire between competing modes of production, 1900-1920
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"Have heart for the manufacturers!" : production, distribution and the decline of American textile manufacturing
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Small-holder economy in Denmark : the exception as variation
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In search of flexibility : the Bologna metalworking industry, 1900-1992
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Local industry and actors' strategies : from combs to plastics in Oyonnax
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Producing producers : shippers, shipyards and the cooperative infrastructure of the Norwegian maritime complex since 1850
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521495554
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521894432
Additional Edition:
Print version ISBN 9780521495554
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511563652
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