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Sabel, Charles F., and Jonathan Zeitlin (eds.). World of Possibilities: Flexibility and Mass Production in Western Industrialization. 2nd ed. Paris: Maison des sciences de l'homme; Cambridge [England]; N.Y.: Cambridge University Press, 2002 (1997).
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Table of contents
Abstract
Reviews
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| List of contributors | ix |
| Acknowledgments | x |
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Stories, strategies, structures: rethinking historical alternatives to mass
production
CHARLES F. SABEL AND JONATHAN ZEITLIN | 1 |
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| Part I. The modernity of tradition |
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 |
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| Part II. The battle of the systems |
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 and CHARLES SABEL | 344 |
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| PART III. The resurgence of flexible production |
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 WITH ANDERSEN | 461 |
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| Index | 501 |
