Forging global Fordism : Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, and the contest over the industrial order / Stefan J. Link.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Link, Stefan J., 1976- author.

Series:

America in the world.

America in the world

Princeton scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fordism.

Mass production--United States--History.

Mass production.

Mass production--Germany--History.

Mass production--Soviet Union--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 316 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2021.

Summary:

As the United States rose to ascendancy in the first decades of the twentieth century, observers abroad associated American economic power most directly with its burgeoning automobile industry. In the 1930s, in a bid to emulate and challenge America, engineers from across the world flocked to Detroit. Chief among them were Nazi and Soviet specialists who sought to study, copy, and sometimes steal the techniques of American automotive mass production, or Fordism. This book traces how Germany and the Soviet Union embraced Fordism amid widespread economic crisis and ideological turmoil.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction: Detroit, Capital of the Twentieth Century

1 The Populist Roots of Mass Production

2 Ford’s Bible of the Modern Age

3 The Soviet Auto Giant

4 Nazi Fordismus

5 War of the Factories

Conclusion: Refashioning Fordism under American Hegemony

Notes

Bibliography

Acknowledgments

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on May 5, 2021).

Previously issued in print: 2020.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780691207988

0691207984

OCLC:

1159626809