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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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018] ©1997 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- 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