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The business of time : A global history of the watch industry /
World watch production today is concentrated in three countries: Switzerland, Japan and China. Former centres such as Great Britain, France, the United States and Russia saw the industrial manufacture of watches disappear from their territory during the twentieth century. How did this situation come...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2022
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| Colección: | Studies in design and material culture.
Book collections on Project MUSE. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | World watch production today is concentrated in three countries: Switzerland, Japan and China. Former centres such as Great Britain, France, the United States and Russia saw the industrial manufacture of watches disappear from their territory during the twentieth century. How did this situation come about? The business of time aims to answer this question by presenting the first comprehensive history of the sector. It traces the evolution and transformation of the global watch industry from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day, highlighting the conditions that enabled watch production to expand across the globe and revealing how multinational companies gradually emerged to dominate the industry. |
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| Notas: | "This book was originally published as Des nations, des firmes et des montres : histoire globale de l'industrie horlogere de 1850 à nos jours (Neuchâtel : Editions Alphil, 2020)." Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource: illustrations. |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-193) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781526162588 |
| Acceso: | Access restricted to authorized users and institutions. |