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WORLD OF POSSIBILITIES
FLEXIBILITY AND MASS PRODUCTION IN WESTERN INDUSTRIALIZATION |
| By: |
Charles F. Sabel (Editor), Jonathan Zeitlin (Editor), Maurice Aymard |
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Hardback |
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| ISBN 10: |
0521495555 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780521495554 |
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| Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
22 May, 1997 |
| Series: |
Studies in Modern Capitalism |
| Pages: |
524 |
| Description: |
A bold and original reinterpretation of Western industrialization from the eighteenth century to the 1990s. |
| Synopsis: |
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. |
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| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Cambridge University Press |
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