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This book develops a new and conceptually distinctive analysis of Americanization in European and Japanese industry after the Second World War, based on a rich set of sectoral and firm-based studies by an international group of distinguished scholars. The authors highlight the autonomous and creative role of local actors in selectively adapting US technology and management methods to suit local conditions and, strikingly, in creating new hybrid forms that combined indigenous and foreign practices in unforeseen and often remarkably competitive ways. Their findings will be of compelling interest not only to historians and social scientists concerned with the dynamics of post-war economic growth and industrial development, but also to those engaged in contemporary debates about the cross-national transfer and diffusion of productive models.

Table of Contents:
Jonathan Zeitlin: Chapter 1: Introduction: Americanization and Its Limits: Reworking US Technology and Management in Post-War Europe and Japan Part I: Exporting the American Model? Jacqueline McGlade: Chapter 2: Americanization: Ideology or Process? The Case of the US Technical Assistance and Productivity Program Steven Tolliday: Chapter 3: Transplanting the American Model? US Automobile Companies and the Transfer of Technology and Management to Europe after the Second World War Part II: Reworking US Technology and Management: National, Sectoral, and Firm-Level Variations A: Britain and Sweden Jonathan Zeitlin: Chapter 4: Americanizing British Engineering? Strategic Debate, Selective Adaptation, and Hybrid Innovation in Post-War Reconstruction Kenneth Lipartito: Chapter 5: Failure to Communicate: British Telecommunications and the American Lesson Henrik Glimstedt: Chapter 6: Creative Cross-Fertilization and Uneven Americanization of Swedish Industry: Sources of Innovation in Post-War Motor Vehicles and Electrical Manufacturing B: France and Italy Matthias Kipping: Chapter 7: A Slow and Difficult Process: The Americanization of the French Steel Producing and Using Industries after World War II Ruggero Ranieri: Chapter 8: Remodelling the Italian Steel Industry: Americanization, Modernization, and Mass Production Duccio Bigazzi: Chapter 9: Mass Production or 'Organized Craftsmanship'? The Post-War Italian Automobile Industry C: Germany and Japan Paul Erker: Chapter 10: The Long Shadow of Americanization: The German Rubber Industry and the Radial Tire Revolution Kazuo Wada and Takao Shiba: Chapter 11: The Evolution of the 'Japanese Production System': Indigenous Influences and American Impact Gary Herrigel: Chapter 12: American Occupation, Market Order, and Democracy: Reconfiguring the Japanese and German Steel Industries after World War II

About the Author :
Jonathan Zeitlin is Professor of History, Sociology, and Industrial Relations, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA; and Jean Monnet Fellow, European University Institute, Florence, Italy. Gary Herrigel is Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago, USA.

Review :
`this is an important book bringing together for the first time a great deal of useful information.' History, vol. 86, no. 284 `The detailed essays provide some fascinating examples of transatlantic interaction.' History, vol. 86, no. 284 `this book is the best by far of the recent spate of studies of Americanization, and it will be invaluable to scholars and students in a variety of fields.' Dr Raymond Stokes, University of Glasgow - Technology and Culture, Vol.42


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780198295556
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press
  • Height: 242 mm
  • No of Pages: 430
  • Spine Width: 28 mm
  • Weight: 825 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0198295553
  • Publisher Date: 23 Mar 2000
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Reworking US Technology and Management in Post-war Europe and Japan
  • Width: 163 mm


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