Author: United States. National Bureau of Standards
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Category : Industries
Languages : en
Pages : 86
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Simplified Practice, what it is and what it Offers
Author: United States. National Bureau of Standards
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Category : Industries
Languages : en
Pages : 82
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Category : Industries
Languages : en
Pages : 82
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Simplified Practice
Author: United States. National bureau of standards. Division of simplified practice
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 82
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 82
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Simplified Practice
Author: United States. National Bureau of Standards. Division of simplified practice
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 84
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 84
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Monthly Catalogue, United States Public Documents
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1144
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1144
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Small, Medium, Large
Author: Colleen A. Dunlavy
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1509561722
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
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
Book Description
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.
Monthly Catalogue, United States Public Documents
Author: United States. Superintendent of Documents
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1066
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1066
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Circular of the Bureau of Standards
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Category : Weights and measures
Languages : en
Pages : 836
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Category : Weights and measures
Languages : en
Pages : 836
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Publications of the Bureau of Standards
Author: United States. National Bureau of Standards
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 276
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 276
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Publications
Author: United States. National Bureau of Standards
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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Publisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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Publications - United States. National Bureau of Standards
Author: United States. National Bureau of Standards
Publisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 282
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Publisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 282
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