Manufacturing Time: Global Competition in the Watch Industry, 1795-2000
Since the large-scale manufacture of personal timepieces began, industry leadership has shifted among widely disparate locations, production systems, and cultures. This book recounts the story of the quest for supremacy in the manufacture of watches--from the cottage industries of Britain; to the preeminence of Switzerland and, later, the United States; to the high-tech plants of Japan and the sweatshops of Hong Kong. Glasmeier examines both the strategies adopted by specific firms and the interplay of such varying influences as technological change, cyclical economic downturns, war, and national trade policies. In so doing, she delineates a…
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- ISBN: 978-1-57230-589-2
- EAN: 9781572305892
- Produktnummer: 22837420
- Verlag: Guilford Pubn
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2000
- Seitenangabe: 311 S.
- Masse: H23.3 cm x B15.7 cm x D2.8 cm 585 g
- Gewicht: 585
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