World of Possibilities: Flexibility and Mass Production in Western Industrialization From: Economic Geography | Date: July 1, 1999| Author: | Copyright Economic Geography Jul 1999. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

World of Possibilities: Flexibility and Mass Production in Western Industrialization. Edited by Charles F. Sabel and Jonathan Zeitlin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.

This volume is a notable collection of detailed studies of "Historical Alternatives to Mass Production." While examining economic trajectories of geographically concentrated agglomerations of small firms in a wide range of industries, spanning three centuries and eight countries, the authors all explicitly address and extend current debates on flexibility and industrial organization. In the process, they eschew any ...

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