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From the American system to mass production, 1800-1932: the development of manufacturing technology in the United States

Hounshell, David A.

Year: c1985.

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press.

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Frontmatter

Figures and Tables

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. The American System of Manufactures in the Antebellum Period

2. The Sewing Machine and the American System of Manufactures

3. Mass Production in American Woodworking Industries: A Case Study

4. The McCormick Reaper Works and American Manufacturing Technology in the Nineteenth Century

5. From the American System toward Mass Production: The Bicycle Industry in the Nineteenth Century

6. The Ford Motor Company and the Rise of Mass Production in America

7. Cul–de–sac: The Limits of Fordism and the Coming of "Flexible Mass Production"

8. The Ethos of Mass Production and Its Critics

APPENDIX 1. The Evolution of the Expression The American System of Manufactures

APPENDIX 2. Singer Sewing Machine Artifactual Analysis

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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Title:

From the American system to mass production, 1800-1932 : the development of manufacturing technology in the United States David A. Hounshell.

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Hounshell, David A

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From the American system to mass production, 1800-1932 : the development of manufacturing technology in the United States David A. Hounshell.
Hounshell, David A
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c1985.

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Subject Headings:

• Mass production -- United States -- History
• Manufacturing processes -- History
• Assembly-line methods -- History
• Factory system -- History

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