Endless Novelty : : Specialty Production and American Industrialization, 1865-1925 / / Philip Scranton.
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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Scranton, Philip, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Endless Novelty : Specialty Production and American Industrialization, 1865-1925 / Philip Scranton. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2018] ©1997 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda 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 restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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 businesses--steel, oil, and autos--have long been given sole credit for this emergence. In Endless Novelty, Philip Scranton boldly recasts the history of this vital episode in the development of American business, known as the nation's second industrial revolution, by considering the crucial impact of trades featuring specialty, not standardized, production. Scranton takes us on a grand tour through American specialty firms and districts, where, for example, we meet printers and jewelry makers in New York and Providence, furniture builders in Grand Rapids, and tool specialists in Cincinnati. Throughout he highlights the benevolent as well as the strained relationships between workers and proprietors, the lively interactions among entrepreneurs and city leaders, and the personal achievements of industrial engineers like Frederic W. Taylor. Scranton shows that in sectors producing goods such as furniture, jewelry, machine tools, and electrical equipment, firms made goods to order or in batches, and industrial districts and networks flourished, creating millions of jobs. These enterprises relied on flexibility, skilled labor, close interactions with clients, suppliers, and rivals, and opportunistic pricing to generate profit streams. They built interfirm alliances to manage markets and fashioned specialized institutions--trade schools, industrial banks, labor bureaus, and sales consortia. In creating regional synergies and economies of scope and diversity, the approaches of these industrial firms represent the inverse of mass production. Challenging views of company organization that have come to dominate the business world in the United States, Endless Novelty will appeal to historians, business leaders, and to anyone curious about the structure of American industry. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) Manufacturing industries United States History. Specialty stores United States History. Technology & Engineering / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999 9783110442496 https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691186924?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691186924 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780691186924.jpg |
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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 |
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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 |
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