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ISBN10: 0801879469, ISBN13: 9780801879463, [publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press] Hardcover New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days. Deeply researched and strikingly original, this study contributes a vivid chapter to the story of America's industrial revolution.
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Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, Date: 2004. Hardcover. New. 400 pages. 9.75x6.50x1.25 inches. 2004. Johns Hopkins Univ Pr ISBN 0801879469 9780801879463 [GB]

ISBN10: 0801879469, ISBN13: 9780801879463, [publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press] Hardcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Co-Winner of the 2005 Hagley Business History Book Prize given by the Busines History Conference.In 1926, the Carriage Builders' National Association met for the last time, signaling the automobile's final triumph over the horse-drawn carriage. Only a decade earlier, carriages and wagons were still a common sight on every Main Street in America. In the previous century, carriage-building had been one of the largest and most dynamic industries in the country. In this sweeping study of a forgotten trade, Thomas A. Kinney extends our understanding of nineteenth-century American industrialization far beyond the steel mill and railroad. The legendary Studebaker Brothers Manufacturing Company in 1880 produced a hundred wagons a day--one every six minutes. Across the country, smaller factories fashioned vast quantities of buggies, farm wagons, and luxury carriages. Today, if we think of carriage and wagon at all, we assume it merely foreshadowed the automobile industry. Yet., the carriage industry epitomized a batch-work approach to production that flourished for decades. Contradicting the model of industrial development in which hand tools, small firms, and individual craftsmanship simply gave way to mechanized factories, the carriage industry successfully employed small-scale business and manufacturing ...

ISBN10: 0801879469, ISBN13: 9780801879463, [publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press] Hardcover Deeply researched and strikingly original, this study contributes a vivid chapter to the story of America's industrial revolution. Series: Studies in Industry and Society. Num Pages: 400 pages, 27, 15 black & white halftones, 12 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJC; KNDR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 27. Weight in Grams: 749. . 2004. First. Hardcover. . . . .
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