Cuban Sugar in the Age of Mass Production: Technology and the Economics of the Sugar Central, 1899-1929 - Couverture rigide

Dye, Alan

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0804728194 ISBN 13 : 9780804728195

Editeur : Stanford University Press, 1998

Synopsis

This book examines the modernization of the Cuban sugar industry from the end of the Cuban War of Independence throughout the ensuing boom in the sugar industry. An underlying theme of the book is the close connection between the technical and organizational changes in the Cuban sugar industry and the technological changes behind the managerial revolution in industrial countries. The technical changes in the sugar industry, marked by the diffusion of mass production technologies and the adoption in Cuba of modern central factories, were characteristic of most progressive industries of that time. In general, the application of mass production technologies heralded the transition from proprietorships to modern hierarchical and corporate forms of business organization. This book links the development in the Cuban sugar industry to the global movement in business organization and technology that has been referred to as the rise of managerial capitalism.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Stanford University Press
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0804728194
• ISBN 13: 9780804728195
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 360
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible