Contest for Control. Metal industries in Sheffield, Solingen, Remscheid and Eskilstuna during industrialization
Details:
- Author(s) Magnusson, Lars
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1994
- Pages 223pp
- Publisher Berg
- Place Published Oxford
Topics:
- Name Comparative international studies
- Name Production of goods & services - methods & organisation
Countries:
- Germany
- Sweden
Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
- Visit British Library's website
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Notes:
Scholarly study of 19th century industrial development within a socio-cultural context, centred on the cutlery production districts of Sheffield, of Solingen and Remscheld in Germany, and of Eskilstuna in Sweden. Challenges the flexible specialization thesis used to explain continuing small scale / decentralised production in favour of larger scale / centralised production. Chapters include: 'Towards a new view of the industrialization process?'; 'Cutlery in industrialization - an institutional approach'; 'The cutlery trades in Sheffield'; 'Bergische Land - Klein and Hausindustrie in transition'; 'Eskilstuna - the industrialization of a handicraft'