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World of possibilities : flexibility and mass production in western industrialization
- Title
- World of possibilities : flexibility and mass production in western industrialization / edited by Charles F. Sabel and Jonathan Zeitlin.
- Publication
- Paris : Maison des sciences de l'homme ; Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1997.
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- Description
- x, 510 pages; 23 cm.
- Series Statement
- Studies in modern capitalism = Etudes sur le capitalisme moderne
- Uniform Title
- Studies in modern capitalism.
- Subjects
- Note
- Papers from an international seminar on "Historical alternatives to mass production."
- Contents
- Stories, strategies, structures: rethinking historical alternatives to mass production / Charles F. Sabel and Jonathan Zeitlin -- 1. Fashion as flexible production: the strategies of the Lyons silk merchants in the eighteenth century / Carlo Poni -- 2. The fate of collective manufactures in the industrial world: the silk industries of Lyons and London, 1800-1850 / Alain Cottereau -- 3. The rise and decline of flexible production: the cutlery industry of Solingen since the eighteenth century / Rudolf Boch -- 4. Manufacturing flexibility in nineteenth-century Switzerland: social and institutional foundations of decline and revival in calico-printing and watchmaking / Beatrice Veyrassat -- 5. Between flexibility and mass production: strategic ambiguity and selective adaptation in the British engineering industry, 1830-1914 / Jonathan Zeitlin -- 6. The lost paradigm: an Italian metalworking empire between competing models of production, 1900-1920 / Alain Dewerpe --
- 7. "Have a heart for the manufacturers!": production, distribution and the decline of American textile manufacturing / Philip Scranton -- 8. The small-holder economy in Denmark: the exception as variation / Peer Hull Kristensen and Charles Sabel -- 9. In search of flexibility: the Bologna metalworking industry, 1900-1992 / Vittorio Capecchi -- 10. Local industry and actors' strategies: from combs to plastics in Oyonnax / Jean Saglio -- 11. Producing producers: shippers, shipyards and the cooperative infrastructure of the Norwegian maritime complex since 1850 / Hakon and Andersen.
- ISBN
- 0521495555
- LCCN
- 96013016
- OCLC
- 34471677
- ocm34471677
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries