Author: National Lumber Manufacturers AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 67
Book Description
High Lights of a Decade of Achievement by the National Lumber Manufacturers Association
Author: National Lumber Manufacturers AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 67
Book Description
High Lights of a Decade of Achievement of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association
Author: National Lumber Manufacturers AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lumber trade
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Miscellaneous Publication
Author: Small, Medium, Large
Author: Colleen A. DunlavyPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1509561722
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
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.
Building a Market
Author: Richard HarrisPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226317684
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
A unique study of how the American Dream came to be—and came to be constantly updated and renovated: ”A pleasure to read.”—American Historical Review Each year, North Americans spend as much money fixing up their homes as they do buying new ones. This obsession with improving our dwellings has given rise to a multibillion-dollar industry that includes countless books, magazines, cable shows, and home improvement stores. Building a Market charts the rise of the home improvement industry in the United States and Canada from the end of World War I into the late 1950s. Drawing on the insights of business, social, and urban historians, and making use of a wide range of documentary sources, Richard Harris shows how the middle-class preference for home ownership first emerged in the 1920s—and how manufacturers, retailers, and the federal government combined to establish the massive home improvement market and a pervasive culture of Do-It-Yourself. Deeply insightful, Building a Market is the carefully crafted history of the emergence and evolution of a home improvement revolution that changed not just American culture but the American landscape as well. “An important topic that deserves to be widely read by scholars of business history, urban history, and social history.”—Journal of American History
Hay Quality
Author: Eral Owen PollockPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Animal nutrition
Languages : en
Pages : 1200
Book Description
A liberal supply of the highest quality of hay obtainable can generally be used to good advantage in the efficient production of livestock and livestock products.
American Lumberman
Author: A Selected Bibliography of North American Forestry
Author: Edward Norfolk MunnsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
Investigation of Concentration of Economic Power
Author: United States. Congress. House. Temporary National Economic CommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Big business
Languages : en
Pages : 1076
Book Description
Author: