The socialist people's car
| Titel: | The socialist people's car : automobiles, shortages and consent in the Czechoslovak road to mass production / Valentina Fava |
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| Veröffentlicht: | Amsterdam : Amsterdam Univ. Press, 2013 |
| Umfang: | 194 S. : Ill. |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Schriftenreihe/ mehrbändiges Werk: |
Technology and European history series |
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| ISBN: | 9089643990 ; 9789089643995 |
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| Bemerkung: | Drawing on the corporate and national archives of the former Czechoslovakia, this important volume contributes to the debate on the circulation of technical and organisational knowledge in twentieth-century Europe. Fava examines in depth the transfer of Fordist practices from the US to Central Europe, using Škoda Auto, the leading Czechoslovak car manufacturer, as a case study. Covering the 1918-68 period, marked by the growing influence of the American model of mass production and also by the sovietisation of the Czechoslovak society and industry, Fava examines how the stratification of foreign technical and organisational knowledge shaped the Czechoslovak car production practices contributing to the formation of a specific technical and organisational culture |
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| Rezension/en: | --Oou--Thatcher, Ian D. |
