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Endless Novelty : Specialty Production and American Industrialization, 1865-1925 /
Flexibility, specialization, and niche marketing are buzzwords in the business literature these days, yet few realize that it was these elements that helped the United States first emerge as a global manufacturing leader between the Civil War and World War I. The huge mass production-based businesse...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, NJ :
Princeton University Press,
[2018]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Tables
- Preface
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- Part I: Early Years
- Chapter 2. Specialty Manufacturing to 1876
- Chapter 3. Institutions and the Context for Specialty Production
- Part II: Centennial to Columbian: Specialty Producers, 1876-1893
- Chapter 4. The 1876 Exposition snd Philadelphia Manufacturing
- Chapter 5. Providence and New York: Jewelry, Silverware, and Printing
- Chapter 6. Midwestern Specialists: Cincinnati Tools and Grand Rapids Furniture
- Part III: Depression and Advance, 1893-1912
- Chapter 7. Chicago and Grand Rapids: Palace Cars and Furniture
- Chapter 8. Fashioning the Machine Tool Hub: Cincinnati
- Chapter 9. Back East: The Electrical Equipment Industry
- Chapter 10. The Perils of Providence: Jewelry's Erratic Course
- Chapter 11. Workshop of the World: Philadelphia
- Part IV: Diverging Pathways, 1913-1925
- Chapter 12. War, Depression, and Specialty Production into the 19205
- Chapter 13. Looking Ahead
- Notes
- Index
- About the Author