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Yarnell, Damon A.

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Behind the line: outside supply, mass production, and the question of managerial expertise in the Model T era.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Behind the line: outside supply, mass production, and the question of managerial expertise in the Model T era./
Author:	Yarnell, Damon A.
Description:	324 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 72-05, Section: A, page: .
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International72-05A.
Subject:	History, United States. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3447497
ISBN:	9781124519906

Behind the line: outside supply, mass production, and the question of managerial expertise in the Model T era.
Yarnell, Damon A.

Behind the line: outside supply, mass production, and the question of managerial expertise in the Model T era. - 324 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 72-05, Section: A, page: .

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Pennsylvania, 2010.

Today, global industry continues to reconfigure the international division of labor, raising urgent questions about economic security, social justice and environmental sustainability. Although "globalization" and "the networked society" have become catchphrases in both academic scholarship and the popular press, analysts have tended to overlook the specific managerial practices behind the international flow of goods and services. This dissertation traces the history of "supply chain management" to its roots in systems of factory administration that developed in the United States during the early twentieth century. Combining the history of technology, labor history and business history, I document daily life in the factory office, and I examine the development of technical expertise in industrial procurement.

ISBN: 9781124519906Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017393
History, United States.

Behind the line: outside supply, mass production, and the question of managerial expertise in the Model T era.
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520 $a Although historians have long recognized the development of mass production as a vital feature of twentieth-century U.S. history, most scholars have focused on the assembly line and shop workers. By emphasizing white-collar labor in the factory office, this dissertation integrates the history of technology with the history of management, reframing the traditional story of concentrated integration in terms of distributed networks and coordination. Several significant findings emerge. First, the Ford Motor Company depended on a vast network of outside suppliers throughout the run of the Model T. This assertion runs counter to established wisdom concerning Ford, but it is supported by recent empirical studies in business history and my own detailed accounts of the working lives of the company's purchasing agents. Second, the U.S. Commerce Department actively promoted a set of managerial techniques designed to encourage mass production. In the case of supply chains, the "visible hand" of mid-level management did not replace the invisible hand of the market without the helping hand of the federal government. Third and finally, robust industrial procurement systems enabled manufacturers like Ford to capture significant external economies, including opportunities for collaborative, inter-firm innovation. Together, the strands of my argument help reframe the history of the American auto industry to the present day, raising important questions about the history of corporate industry and demonstrating that the American system of mass production was as much a political as a technological achievement.
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