Forging Global Fordism (eBook)

Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, and the Contest over the Industrial Order

Stefan J. Link (Autor)

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2020
328 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-20798-8 (ISBN)

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A new global history of Fordism from the Great Depression to the postwar eraAs 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. Forging Global Fordism traces how Germany and the Soviet Union embraced Fordism amid widespread economic crisis and ideological turmoil. This incisive book recovers the crucial role of activist states in global industrial transformations and reconceives the global thirties as an era of intense competitive development, providing a new genealogy of the postwar industrial order.Stefan Link uncovers the forgotten origins of Fordism in Midwestern populism, and shows how Henry Ford's antiliberal vision of society appealed to both the Soviet and Nazi regimes. He explores how they positioned themselves as America's antagonists in reaction to growing American hegemony and seismic shifts in the global economy during the interwar years, and shows how Detroit visitors like William Werner, Ferdinand Porsche, and Stepan Dybets helped spread versions of Fordism abroad and mobilize them in total war.Forging Global Fordism challenges the notion that global mass production was a product of post-World War II liberal internationalism, demonstrating how it first began in the global thirties, and how the spread of Fordism had a distinctly illiberal trajectory.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.9.2020
• Reihe/Serie: America in the World
• Reihe/Serie: America in the World
• Zusatzinfo: 20 b/w illus. 9 tables.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Schlagworte: Adolf Hitler • Agriculture • A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World • americanization • America’s Assembly Line • Andrew Zimmerman • Antonio Gramsci • Assembly Line • autarky • Automotive industry in the United States • Backwardness • behemoth • bolsheviks • Booker T. Washington • Cambridge University Press • Capitalism • Car • Car Manufacturing • chief engineer • communism • crankshaft • David E. Nye • Developmental state • Division of Labour • Economic Development • Economic Geography • Economic History • Economic Inequality • Economic Policy • Economics • economy • Economy of the Soviet Union • Elizabeth D. Esch • Employment • Engineering • Erhard Milch • Factory • Ferdinand Porsche • First five-year plan (Soviet Union) • five-year plan • Fordism • Ford Motor Company • Gaz • General Motors • Globalization • GM • goering • Göring • Gramsci • hard currency • hegemony • Heinrich Nordhoff • Hermann Göring • Hitler • Ian Tyrrell • Ideology • industrialisation • Industrial Policy • industrial production • Industrial Revolution • Industry • Interwar Period • joseph stalin • Joshua B. Freeman • junkers • Knights of Labor • laborer • Lebensraum • Luftwaffe • Machine Tool • Machining • Managing Race in the Ford Empire • Manufacturing • Marshall Plan • Mass production • Modernity • Modernization Theory • Nazi Germany • Nazi Party • Nazism • NEP • Nikita Khrushchev • Nikolai Osinskii • Operation Barbarossa • Oxford University Press • people’s car • politburo • Political Economy • Politics • Populism • post-Fordism • Production Engineering • production line • raw material • Scientific Management • Shop Floor • shortage • Soviet Union • Stalin • Stalinism • Supply Chain • Supply (economics) • Sven Beckert • tariff • technocracy • Technology • Technology Transfer • The Color Line and the Assembly Line • Total War • United States • Volkswagen • war economy • war effort • Weimar • Western Europe • West Germany • Wirtschaftswunder • Workforce • World Economy • World History • World War I • World War II
• ISBN-10: 0-691-20798-4 / 0691207984
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-20798-8 / 9780691207988