Part I. The Modernity of Tradition: 1. Fashion as flexible production: the
strategies of the Lyon silk merchants in the eighteenth century Carlo Poni;
2. The fate of fabriques collectives in the industrial world: the silk
industries of Lyon and London, 1800-1850 Alain Cottereau; 3. The rise and
decline of flexible production: the cutlery industry of Solingen since the
eighteenth century Rudolf Boch; 4. Manufacturing flexibility in
nineteenth-century Switzerland: social and institutional foundations of
decline and revival in calico printing and watchmaking Beatrice Veyrassat;
Part II. The Battle of the Systems: 5. Between flexibility and mass
production: strategic ambiguity and selective adaptation in the British
engineering industry, 1840-1914 Jonathan Zeitlin; 6. The lost paradigm: an
Italian metalworking empire between competing models of production,
1900-1920 Alain Dewerpe; 7. 'Have a heart for the manufacturers!':
production, distribution and the decline of American textile manufacturing
Philip Scranton; 8. The small-holder economy in Denmark: the exception as
variation Peer Hull Kristensen and Charles Sabel; Part III. The Resurgence
of Flexible Production: 9. In search of flexibility: the Bologna
metalworking industry, 1900-1992 Vittorio Capecchi; 10. Local industry and
actors' strategies: from combs to plastics oyonnax Jean Saglio; 11.
Producing producers: shippers, shipyards and the cooperative infrastructure
of the Norwegian maritime complex since 1850 Hakon With Andersen; Index.
