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| Introduction |
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Part 1 Industrialization and its Conceptualizations |
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Chapter 1 The Notion of Industrialization and Other Related Notions |
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1.1 The notion of industrialization |
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1.1.1 The birth of the notion of industrialization |
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1.1.2 Industrialization according to economists |
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1.1.3 Industrialization according to management sciences |
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1.1.4 Sociologies of technology and knowledge |
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1.1.5 Industrialization according to technological historians |
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1.1.6 The objectives of histories of technology |
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1.1.7 The different histories of technology |
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1.1.8 The synthesis of these contributions: continuity or discontinuity? |
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1.2 The links between industrialization, technological revolutions and machinism |
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37 | (4) |
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1.2.1 Industrialization and industrial revolutions |
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1.2.2 Industrialization and the various revolutions |
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1.2.3 Industrialization and machinism |
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Chapter 2 Social Dynamics, Shared Inventions and Competitive Innovations |
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2.1.1 The glorification of arts and crafts: from guilds to arts and crafts communities |
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43 | (4) |
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2.1.2 The defense and glory of nations |
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2.1.3 The links between technology, social relations and people at work |
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2.2 Evolution of the notions of technological change, invention and innovation |
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2.2.1 Technological changes and the temptation of symbols and representations |
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2.2.2 The ambiguities of the notion of invention |
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2.2.3 The enigmas of innovation |
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2.2.4 The end of the technological change/invention/innovation triangle? |
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55 | (5) |
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2.3.1 From the sharing of inventions to shared inventions |
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2.3.2 The first definitions of shared inventions |
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2.3.3 A definition of shared inventions |
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2.3.4 The trajectories of shared inventions |
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2.4 Competitive innovations |
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2.4.1 The first definitions of competitive innovations |
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2.4.2 The competition principles adopted |
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2.4.3 The trajectories of competitive innovations |
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Part 2 Historical Periods, Social Dynamics, Shared Inventions and Competitive Innovations |
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Chapter 3 1698-1760 or the Emergence of Machinism |
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3.1 The situation in 1698 |
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3.1.1 Major changes in social relations, religions and manufactories |
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3.1.2 Manufactories and the organization of work in France and England |
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3.1.3 New models of manufactory organization |
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3.1.4 Performance of manufactories versus development of nations |
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3.1.5 Statement of account |
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3.2 1698-1760: industrialization and major changes |
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3.2.1 Conflicts between religions and the economy |
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3.2.2 Conflicts between nations |
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3.2.3 The willingness of governments to enact change in public affairs |
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3.3 The precursors and inventions of steam engines |
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3.3.1 The era of the Enlightenment and other imaginative inventors |
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3.3.2 The appearance of the true inventors |
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3.4 Steam engines and shared inventions |
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3.4.1 The first steam engine and its first patent |
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3.4.2 The first sharing of steam engines |
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3.5.2 The search for substitutes |
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3.5.3 The invention of puddling |
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3.6 Sharing around the inventions of the textile industry |
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3.6.1 Weaving and the fly-shuttle |
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3.6.2 Perforated ribbons and weaving machines |
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3.7 "Printed cotton indiennes" or copies of inventions and the organization of factories |
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3.7.1 Sectoral characteristics of the shared inventions of this period |
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Chapter 4 1760-1850 or the Industrial Revolution and its Competitive Innovations |
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4.1 The transition from the emergence of machinism and its shared inventions to the Industrial Revolution and its competitive innovations |
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4.2 The Industrial Revolution and competitive innovations (1760-1850) |
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4.2.1 Competitive innovations |
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4.2.2 The contradictions of the steam engine industry |
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4.2.3 The contradictions of the textile sector |
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4.2.4 The inescapable contradictions of machine tool production |
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Chapter 5 1850-1914 or the New Shared Inventions and the Birth of the Modern Large Company |
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5.1 The invention of the modern large company |
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5.2.1 The "ebauches" of Frederic Japy (1771) |
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5.2.2 Oliver Evans' "endless mill" (1784) |
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5.2.3 Honore Blanc's rifles and the Springfield Armory (1790, 1819) |
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5.2.4 Thomas Tassel-Grant's "sea biscuits" (1830) |
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5.2.5 The inventions of Mr. Johann Georg Bodmer (1833 onwards) |
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5.3 The Singer Manufacturing Company and the Civil War uniforms |
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5.3.1 The sewing machine, its invention and innovations |
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5.3.2 The true birth of the sewing machine can be traced from 1849 to 1850 |
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113 | (1) |
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5.3.3 The sewing machine and the organization of the company |
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5.4 The Chicago Yards and their integrated slaughterhouses |
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5.4.1 The actors involved in the creation of Union Stock Yards |
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5.4.2 The operating modes of the Union Stock Yards |
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5.6 An almost totally invented inauguration and improbable analyses |
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122 | (3) |
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5.7 The management of these shared inventions |
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125 | (6) |
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5.7.1 The invention of the commercialization of products |
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125 | (1) |
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5.7.2 The invention of marketing |
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126 | (1) |
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5.7.3 Labor and employee management |
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5.7.4 The importance of the links between management tools and shared inventions |
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129 | (2) |
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Chapter 6 1914 or the Birth of Extended Machinism |
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6.1 Major changes in social dynamics |
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6.1.2 The increasing number of crises |
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6.1.3 Profound changes in terms of social dynamics |
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132 | (2) |
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6.2 Large shared inventions combined with competitive innovations |
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6.2.1 The irresistible growth of electricity |
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134 | (2) |
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6.2.2 The extraordinary growth of gas and oil |
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136 | (1) |
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6.2.3 Maritime and air transport |
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6.2.9 Computing and the reinvention of calculating machines |
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143 | (3) |
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146 | (3) |
| Conclusion |
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149 | (8) |
| References |
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| Index |
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