World of Possibilities: Flexibility and Mass Production in Western Industrialization

Studies in Modern Capitalism

by Charles F. Sabel (Editor), Jonathan Zeitlin (Editor)

This book presents a bold and original reinterpretation of Western industrialization from the eighteenth century to the present day in terms of the interplay between flexibility and mass production. Drawing on extensive new research by a multinational and multidisciplinary team of scholars, the volume challenges standard views about the inevitable triumph of the large-scale, vertically-integrated corporate enterprise. In contrast, World of Possibilities highlights the plurality of forms of successful industrial organization, past and present, throughout the Western world.

524 pages, Hardcover

First published May 22, 1997

Reviews

[Yisu Z. · Rating 5 out of 5]

当政治经济学发现了叙事理论和科学哲学之后会是怎样？Sabel和Zeitlin给出了精彩的答案：The central theme of this book is that the experience of fragility and mutability which seemed so novel and disorienting today has been, in fact, the definitive experience of the economic actors in many sectors, countries and epochs in the history of industrial capitalism.