World Industrialization

World Industrialization

by Michel Vigezzi
Released January 2020
Publisher(s): Wiley-ISTE
ISBN: 9781786303967

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Book description


Based on the paradigms of economics and management, inspired by the history of technology and the sociology of technological change, the concepts of shared inventions and competitive innovations make it possible to analyze the industrialization of the world in a fresh and efficient way. As a new approach, shared inventions are classified in this book as a set of existing knowledge that's often associated with the rediscovery of old techniques. Determining capitalized and collective intelligence, this knowledge and reinvention allows us to create inventions which will be shared, first in their construction, then in their use. Another new approach is that these competitive innovations are defined in World Industrialization by associations of experiences of competitively-motivated actors – actors seeking to complement existing techniques by increasing their competitive power. These shared inventions and competitive innovations will also be defined by trajectories identifying their modes of creation, enabling us to overcome the peculiarities of these actions and competitions. This book also highlights four key areas in global industrialization: the emergence of machinism with the defense of Arts and Crafts from 1698–1760; the changes the Industrial Revolution wrought in developed nations from 1760–1850; the link between technology and social relations within modern companies from 1850–1914; and, from 1914 onwards, the birth of extended machinism, its world wars and its global crises.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Introduction
  4. PART 1: Industrialization and its Conceptualizations
    1. Introduction to Part 1
    2. 1 The Notion of Industrialization and Other Related Notions
      1. 1.1. The notion of industrialization
      2. 1.2. The links between industrialization, technological revolutions and machinism
    3. 2 Social Dynamics, Shared Inventions and Competitive Innovations
      1. 2.1. Social dynamics
      2. 2.2. Evolution of the notions of technological change, invention and innovation
      3. 2.3. Shared inventions
      4. 2.4. Competitive innovations
  5. PART 2: Historical Periods, Social Dynamics, Shared Inventions and Competitive Innovations
    1. Introduction to Part 2
    2. 3 1698–1760 or the Emergence of Machinism
      1. 3.1. The situation in 1698
      2. 3.2. 1698–1760: industrialization and major changes
      3. 3.3. The precursors and inventions of steam engines
      4. 3.4. Steam engines and shared inventions
      5. 3.5. Coke metallurgy
      6. 3.6. Sharing around the inventions of the textile industry
      7. 3.7. “Printed cotton indiennes” or copies of inventions and the organization of factories
    3. 4 1760–1850 or the Industrial Revolution and its Competitive Innovations
      1. 4.1. The transition from the emergence of machinism and its shared inventions to the Industrial Revolution and its competitive innovations
      2. 4.2. The Industrial Revolution and competitive innovations (1760–1850)
      3. 4.3. 1851: an inventory?
    4. 5 1850–1914 or the New Shared Inventions and the Birth of the Modern Large Company
      1. 5.1. The invention of the modern large company
      2. 5.2. Precursors
      3. 5.3. The Singer Manufacturing Company and the Civil War uniforms
      4. 5.4. The Chicago Yards and their integrated slaughterhouses
      5. 5.5. The Swiss example
      6. 5.6. An almost totally invented inauguration and improbable analyses
      7. 5.7. The management of these shared inventions
    5. 6 1914 or the Birth of Extended Machinism
      1. 6.1. Major changes in social dynamics
      2. 6.2. Large shared inventions combined with competitive innovations
  6. Conclusion: Cycles and Networks
    1. C.1. Regular cycles or contingent developments?
    2. C.2. The role of histories of technology, networks and environments
  7. References
  8. Index
  9. End User License Agreement

Product information

  • Title: World Industrialization
  • Author(s): Michel Vigezzi
  • Release date: January 2020
  • Publisher(s): Wiley-ISTE
  • ISBN: 9781786303967