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Category : Standardization
Languages : en
Pages : 422
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Commercial Standards Monthly
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Category : Standardization
Languages : en
Pages : 422
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Category : Standardization
Languages : en
Pages : 422
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Commercial Standard
Author: United States. National Bureau of Standards
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Category : Standardization
Languages : en
Pages : 1868
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Category : Standardization
Languages : en
Pages : 1868
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Commercial Standards Monthly
Author: United States. National Bureau of Standards
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Category : Industrial efficiency
Languages : en
Pages : 290
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Category : Industrial efficiency
Languages : en
Pages : 290
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Industrial Standardization and Commercial Standards Monthly
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Category : Standardization
Languages : en
Pages : 432
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Category : Standardization
Languages : en
Pages : 432
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Small, Medium, Large
Author: Colleen A. Dunlavy
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1509561722
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 165
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We live in a world of seemingly limitless consumer choice. Yet, as every shopper knows without thinking about it, many everyday goods – from beds to batteries to printer paper – are available in a finite number of “standard sizes.” What makes these sizes “standard” is an agreement among competing firms to make or sell products with the same limited dimensions. But how did firms – often hotly competing firms – reach such collective agreements? In exploring this question, Colleen Dunlavy puts the history of mass production and distribution in an entirely new light. She reveals that, despite the widely publicized model offered by Henry Ford, mass production techniques did not naturally diffuse throughout the U.S. economy. On the contrary, formidable market forces blocked their diffusion. It was only under the cover of collectively agreed-upon, industrywide standard sizes – orchestrated by the federal government – that competing firms were able to break free of market forces and transition to mass production and distribution. Without government promotion of standard sizes, the twentieth-century American variety of capitalism would have looked markedly less “Fordist.” Small, Medium, Large will make all of us think differently about the everyday consumer choices we take for granted.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1509561722
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 165
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We live in a world of seemingly limitless consumer choice. Yet, as every shopper knows without thinking about it, many everyday goods – from beds to batteries to printer paper – are available in a finite number of “standard sizes.” What makes these sizes “standard” is an agreement among competing firms to make or sell products with the same limited dimensions. But how did firms – often hotly competing firms – reach such collective agreements? In exploring this question, Colleen Dunlavy puts the history of mass production and distribution in an entirely new light. She reveals that, despite the widely publicized model offered by Henry Ford, mass production techniques did not naturally diffuse throughout the U.S. economy. On the contrary, formidable market forces blocked their diffusion. It was only under the cover of collectively agreed-upon, industrywide standard sizes – orchestrated by the federal government – that competing firms were able to break free of market forces and transition to mass production and distribution. Without government promotion of standard sizes, the twentieth-century American variety of capitalism would have looked markedly less “Fordist.” Small, Medium, Large will make all of us think differently about the everyday consumer choices we take for granted.
Standards Yearbook
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Category : Standardization
Languages : en
Pages : 422
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Category : Standardization
Languages : en
Pages : 422
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Commercial Standards Monthly. A Review of Progress in Commercial Standardization and Simplification
Author: United States. National Bureau of Standards
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Languages : en
Pages : 696
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Languages : en
Pages : 696
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Monthly News Bulletin of Division of Simplified Practice
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Category : Standardization
Languages : en
Pages : 434
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Category : Standardization
Languages : en
Pages : 434
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Commerce Business Daily
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Category : Government purchasing
Languages : en
Pages : 1124
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Category : Government purchasing
Languages : en
Pages : 1124
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The Japan Daily Mail
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Languages : en
Pages : 818
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Languages : en
Pages : 818
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