Manufacturing the Future

A History of Western Electric

Stephen B. Adams, Orville R. Butler (Bond University, Queensland)

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Cambridge University Press
10 May 1999

Economic history; Hi-tech manufacturing industries

Manufacturing the Future: A History of Western Electric is the first full-length history of the Western Electric Company, the manufacturing arm of the Bell System. As a manufacturer in the communications revolutions in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Western Electric made new products such as telegraphs, telephones, an early computing machine, radios, radar, and transistors. The book demonstrates, through Western's 1882 acquisition by Bell Telephone, that vertical integration was a lengthy process rather than a single event. It also shows the coming of age of industrial psychology and describes the advent of civil rights in corporate America.

By: Stephen B. Adams, Orville R. Butler (Bond University, Queensland)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 161mm, Spine: 24mm
Weight: 610g
ISBN: 9780521651189
ISBN 10: 0521651182
Pages: 284
Publication Date: 10 May 1999
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for Manufacturing the Future: A History of Western Electric

This overview of the operation and evolution of a leading firm over a vital era of American business history is recommended for undergraduate and graduate library collections. Choice ...a compact and highly readable account of a hitherto largely neglected company. Albert Churella, Business History Manufacturing the Future provides a valuable overview of Western Electric's history, an excellent teaching tool for undergraduates studying the American economy. John Abrahamson, EH.NET The author's abilities to integrate so many disparate themes...into such a brief account are highly praisworthy. Enterprise & Society Manufacturing the Future is a thorough and well-structured book that clearly and succinctly- in 218 text pages- covers the most seminal points in Western Electric's history. The Book's emphasis on the relationship between the firm and the Bell System is well placed and its arguments are convicing. The author's abilities to integrate so many disparate themes...are highly praiseworthy. Enterprise & Society