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Small, Medium, Large
- How Government Made the U.S. into a Manufacturing Powerhouse
Af: Colleen A. Dunlavy
Engelsk Hardback
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Small, Medium, Large
- How Government Made the U.S. into a Manufacturing Powerhouse
Af: Colleen A. Dunlavy
Engelsk Hardback
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We live in a world of seemingly limitless consumer choice. Yet, as every shopper knows without thinking about it, many everyday goods – from beds to batteries to printer paper – are available in a finite number of “standard sizes.” What makes these sizes “standard” is an agreement among competing firms to make or sell products with the same limited dimensions. But how did firms – often hotly competing firms – reach such collective agreements?In exploring this question, Colleen Dunlavy puts the history of mass production and distribution in an entirely new light. She reveals that, despite the widely publicized model offered by Henry Ford, mass production techniques did not naturally diffuse throughout the U.S. economy. On the contrary, formidable market forces blocked their diffusion. It was only under the cover of collectively agreed-upon, industrywide standard sizes – orchestrated by the federal government – that competing firms were able to break free of market forces and transition to mass production and distribution. Without government promotion of standard sizes, the twentieth-century American variety of capitalism would have looked markedly less “Fordist.” Small, Medium, Large will make all of us think differently about the everyday consumer choices we take for granted. Also available as an audiobook.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
240
ISBN-13:
9781509561735
Indbinding:
Hardback
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ISBN-10:
1509561730
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Udg. Dato:
30 aug 2024
Længde:
26mm
Bredde:
146mm
Højde:
223mm
Forlag:
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Oplagsdato:
30 aug 2024
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