Standards Yearbook: 1927-[1933]
Author : United States. National Bureau of Standards
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Page : 416 pages
File Size : 18,57 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Standardization
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Author : United States. National Bureau of Standards
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Page : 416 pages
File Size : 18,57 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Standardization
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Page : 1044 pages
File Size : 22,99 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Weights and measures
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Author : Colleen A. Dunlavy
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 23,23 MB
Release : 2024-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1509561722
We live in a world of seemingly limitless consumer choice. Yet, as every shopper knows without thinking about it, many everyday goods – from beds to batteries to printer paper – are available in a finite number of “standard sizes.” What makes these sizes “standard” is an agreement among competing firms to make or sell products with the same limited dimensions. But how did firms – often hotly competing firms – reach such collective agreements? In exploring this question, Colleen Dunlavy puts the history of mass production and distribution in an entirely new light. She reveals that, despite the widely publicized model offered by Henry Ford, mass production techniques did not naturally diffuse throughout the U.S. economy. On the contrary, formidable market forces blocked their diffusion. It was only under the cover of collectively agreed-upon, industrywide standard sizes – orchestrated by the federal government – that competing firms were able to break free of market forces and transition to mass production and distribution. Without government promotion of standard sizes, the twentieth-century American variety of capitalism would have looked markedly less “Fordist.” Small, Medium, Large will make all of us think differently about the everyday consumer choices we take for granted.
Author : Robert Anthony Martino
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Page : 296 pages
File Size : 45,91 MB
Release : 1941
Category : Standardization
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Page : 300 pages
File Size : 47,33 MB
Release : 1941
Category : Weights and measures
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Page : 328 pages
File Size : 43,15 MB
Release : 1941
Category : Weights and measures
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Author : United States. National Bureau of Standards
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Page : 776 pages
File Size : 16,61 MB
Release : 1948
Category : Washington (D.C.)
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Page : 1090 pages
File Size : 38,67 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Government publications
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Page : 432 pages
File Size : 18,56 MB
Release : 1942
Category : Labor laws and legislation
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Publishes in-depth articles on labor subjects, current labor statistics, information about current labor contracts, and book reviews.
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Page : 1742 pages
File Size : 10,49 MB
Release : 1941
Category : Labor
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