The business of time : A global history of the watch industry /

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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...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Donze, Pierre-Yves (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2022
Collection:Studies in design and material culture.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Clock and watch makers > History.
Clock and watch industry > History.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • The situation in the mid-nineteenth century
  • Responding to the American challenge, 1870-1890
  • The first phase of technological and industrial diffusion, 1890-1914
  • The transformation of the watch industry, 1914-1945
  • The first wave of foreign direct investment, 1945-1970
  • The impact of electronics, 1970-1985
  • Reorganisation of global value chains after 1985
  • Epilogue : the world watch industry in 2017.

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