World of possibilities : flexibility and mass production in western industrialization / edited by Charles F. Sabel and Jonathan Zeitlin.
1997
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Title
World of possibilities : flexibility and mass production in western industrialization / edited by Charles F. Sabel and Jonathan Zeitlin.
Published
[Paris] : Maison des sciences de l'homme ; Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [1997]
Copyright
©1997
Call Number
HC53 .W63 1997
ISBN
0521495555
Description
x, 510 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)34471677
Note
Papers from an international seminar on "Historical alternatives to mass production."
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Flexibility and mass production in western industrialization
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Table of Contents
List of contributors
Acknowledgments
Stories, strategies, structures: rethinking historical alternatives to mass production / Charles F. Sabel Jonathan Zeitlin
1
1
Fashion as flexible production: the strategies of the Lyons silk merchants in the eighteenth century / Carlo Poni
37
2
The fate of collective manufactures in the industrial world: the silk industries of Lyons and London, 1800-1850 / Alain Cottereau
75
3
The rise and decline of flexible production: the cutlery industry of Solingen since the eighteenth century / Rudolf Boch
153
4
Manufacturing flexibility in nineteenth-century Switzerland: social and institutional foundations of decline and revival in calico-printing and watchmaking / Beatrice Veyrassat
188
5
Between flexibility and mass production: strategic ambiguity and selective adaptation in the British engineering industry, 1830-1914 / Jonathan Zeitlin
241
6
The lost paradigm: an Italian metalworking empire between competing models of production, 1900-1920 / Alain Dewerpe
273
7
"Have a heart for the manufacturers!": production, distribution and the decline of American textile manufacturing / Philip Scranton
310
8
The small-holder economy in Denmark: the exception as variation / Peer Hull Kristensen Charles Sabel
344
9
In search of flexibility: the Bologna metalworking industry, 1900-1992 / Vittorio Capecchi
381
10
Local industry and actors' strategies: from combs to plastics in Oyonnax / Jean Saglio
419
11
Producing producers: shippers, shipyards and the cooperative infrastructure of the Norwegian maritime complex since 1850 / Hakon Andersen
461
Index
501