World of Possibilities: Flexibility and Mass Production in Western Industrialization

Book Overview

This book presents a bold and original reinterpretation of Western industrialization from the eighteenth century to the present day in terms of the interplay between flexibility and mass production. Drawing on extensive new research by a multinational and multidisciplinary team of scholars, the volume challenges standard views about the inevitable triumph of the large-scale, vertically-integrated corporate enterprise. In contrast, World of Possibilities...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521894433
• ISBN13: 9780521894432
• Release Date: May 2002
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 524 Pages
• Weight: 1.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.3" x 9.0"