World of Possibilities
Flexibility and Mass Production in Western Industrialization

Table of Contents

Part I. The Modernity of Tradition:
1. Fashion as flexible production: the strategies of the Lyon silk merchants in the eighteenth century Carlo Poni
2. The fate of fabriques collectives in the industrial world: the silk industries of Lyon and London, 1800–1850 Alain Cottereau
3. The rise and decline of flexible production: the cutlery industry of Solingen since the eighteenth century Rudolf Boch
4. Manufacturing flexibility in nineteenth-century Switzerland: social and institutional foundations of decline and revival in calico printing and watchmaking Beatrice Veyrassat
Part II. The Battle of the Systems:
5. Between flexibility and mass production: strategic ambiguity and selective adaptation in the British engineering industry, 1840–1914 Jonathan Zeitlin
6. The lost paradigm: an Italian metalworking empire between competing models of production, 1900–1920 Alain Dewerpe
7. 'Have a heart for the manufacturers!': production, distribution and the decline of American textile manufacturing Philip Scranton
8. The small-holder economy in Denmark: the exception as variation Peer Hull Kristensen and Charles Sabel
Part III. The Resurgence of Flexible Production:
9. In search of flexibility: the Bologna metalworking industry, 1900–1992 Vittorio Capecchi
10. Local industry and actors' strategies: from combs to plastics oyonnax Jean Saglio
11. Producing producers: shippers, shipyards and the cooperative infrastructure of the Norwegian maritime complex since 1850 Hakon With Andersen
Index.

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