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Assembled in Japan : electrical goods and the making of the Japanese consumer / Simon Partner.
De Gruyter University of California Press eBook-Package Archive Pre-2000 Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Partner, Simon.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Electronic industries--Japan.
- Electronic industries.
- Consumers--Japan.
- Consumers.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 303 p. : ill.. ; 24 cm.
- Edition:
- Reprint 2019
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c1999.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This volume investigates the rise of the Japanese electronics industry. It discovers that behind the meteoric rise of electrical goods companies was neither the iron hand of Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry nor a government-sponsored export-led growth policy.
- Contents:
- Front matter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Electrifying Japan
- 2. Reenvisioning Japan
- 3. The Vision of America
- 4. The Technologies of Desire
- 5. Creating the "Bright Life"
- 6. Nimble Fingers
- Conclusion
- Appendix: Tables
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-290) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780520923171
- 0520923170
- 9780585368139
- 0585368139
- OCLC:
- 47008783
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