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OverviewDrawing on the corporate and national archives of the former Czechoslovakia, this important volume contributes to the debate on the circulation of technical and organisational knowledge in twentieth-century Europe. Fava examines in depth the transfer of Fordist practices from the US to Central Europe, using ¿koda Auto, the leading Czechoslovak car manufacturer, as a case study. Covering the 1918-68 period, marked by the growing influence of the American model of mass production and also by the sovietisation of the Czechoslovak society and industry, Fava examines how the stratification of foreign technical and organisational knowledge shaped the Czechoslovak car production practices contributing to the formation of a specific technical and organisational culture. Along with the questions typical of company cases in business history and relative to ¿koda corporate structure, performance, production processes and product quality, this much-needed study also addresses the issue of the Communist Party’s controversial approach to mass motorisation. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Valentina FavaPublisher: Amsterdam University Press Imprint: Amsterdam University Press Volume: 8 Dimensions: Width: 17.00cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 24.00cm Weight: 0.666kg ISBN: 9789089643995ISBN 10: 9089643990 Pages: 196 Publication Date: 17 October 2013 Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsReviews[W]ell grounded in Czechoslovak and east central European historiography.... [S]cholars of industry in central and eastern Europe will find the volume useful, particularly as they pose the inevitable social and cultural questions now regularly raised in histories of automobilism in western Europe and the US. Recommended. -- Choice [W]ell grounded in Czechoslovak and east central European historiography.... [S]cholars of industry in central and eastern Europe will find the volume useful, particularly as they pose the inevitable social and cultural questions now regularly raised in histories of automobilism in western Europe and the US. Recommended. --Choice Author InformationValentina Fava is a researcher at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies. She has been a research fellow at Bocconi University in Milan (2004-2005) and a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence (2006-2008). In 2009, she received a fellowship from the Foundation for the History of Technology in the Netherlands. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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