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Scranton, Philip Brown was born on September 11, 1946 in New Brighton, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Clarence Henry and Della Scranton.
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Endless Novelty by Philip Scranton (2000-10-15)
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Endless Novelty
( Flexibility, specialization, and niche marketing are bu...)
Flexibility, specialization, and niche marketing are buzzwords in the business literature these days, yet few realize that it was these elements that helped the United States first emerge as a global manufacturing leader between the Civil War and World War I. The huge mass production-based businesses--steel, oil, and autos--have long been given sole credit for this emergence. In Endless Novelty, Philip Scranton boldly recasts the history of this vital episode in the development of American business, known as the nation's second industrial revolution, by considering the crucial impact of trades featuring specialty, not standardized, production. Scranton takes us on a grand tour through American specialty firms and districts, where, for example, we meet printers and jewelry makers in New York and Providence, furniture builders in Grand Rapids, and tool specialists in Cincinnati. Throughout he highlights the benevolent as well as the strained relationships between workers and proprietors, the lively interactions among entrepreneurs and city leaders, and the personal achievements of industrial engineers like Frederic W. Taylor. Scranton shows that in sectors producing goods such as furniture, jewelry, machine tools, and electrical equipment, firms made goods to order or in batches, and industrial districts and networks flourished, creating millions of jobs. These enterprises relied on flexibility, skilled labor, close interactions with clients, suppliers, and rivals, and opportunistic pricing to generate profit streams. They built interfirm alliances to manage markets and fashioned specialized institutions--trade schools, industrial banks, labor bureaus, and sales consortia. In creating regional synergies and economies of scope and diversity, the approaches of these industrial firms represent the inverse of mass production. Challenging views of company organization that have come to dominate the business world in the United States, Endless Novelty will appeal to historians, business leaders, and to anyone curious about the structure of American industry.
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Proprietary Capitalism: The Textile Manufacture at Philadelphia, 1800-1885
(The greatest textile manufacturing centre in America used...)
The greatest textile manufacturing centre in America used to be, not Lowell, Massachusetts, but Philadelphia, where in 1880 over eight hundred textile firms employed over fifty thousand workers producing fabrics, carpets, yarns, and knit-goods of every description. Proprietary Capitalism presents a careful reconstruction of the rise of textile capitalism in the Quaker City, whose distinguishing features were immigrant family firms, flexible strategies for production, and an emphasis on skill, quality, and market responsiveness. The small and middle-sized firms in Philadelphia, far from being displaced by corporate competitors, proved durable, functioning through networks of linked specializations, with spinning, weaving, dyeing, and finishing often performed in separate establishments. Proprietary Capitalism documents the development of a fully realized alternative to the corporate style of mass production that brought fame to New England's mill cities. This book presents a strong challenge for a rethinking of the role of 'small business' in the saga of American industrial development.
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Endless Novelty : Specialty Production and American Industrialization, 1865-1925 (Paperback - Revised Ed.)--by Philip Scranton 2000 Edition
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Figured Tapestry: Production, Markets and Power in Philadelphia Textiles, 1855-1941 by Philip Scranton (1989-07-28)
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Figured Tapestry: Production, Markets and Power in Philadelphia Textiles, 1855-1941
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Focusing on the Philadelphia textile trades from the era of the Knights of Labor through World War II, this book is a study of industrial maturity and decline. The author assesses the significance and limits of industrial versatility, owner-operated businesses, craft labor and its organizations, and the agglomeration of specialized mills in urban districts. An interdisciplinary blend of business, labor, urban, and economic history, industrial geography, and the history of technology, the book illuminates the hidden world of batch production, the "other side" of American industrialization, and highlights both the benefits and the hazards of flexibility.
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Endless Novelty by Philip Scranton (1997-10-13)
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Proprietary Capitalism : The Textile Manufacture at Philadelphia, 1800 1885 (Paperback - Revised Ed.)--by Philip Scranton 2002 Edition
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Philip Brown Scranton
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Philip Brown Scranton, American History educator. Senior research fellow National Endowment for Humanities, 1989, research fellow Woodrow Wilson Center Smithsonian Institute, 1990, Mellon/National Endowment for Humanities fellow Hagley Museum Library., 1991-1992; recipient prize Newcomen Society American, 1991.
Education
Bachelor, University of Pennsylvania, 1968; Master of Arts, University of Pennsylvania, 1971; Doctor of Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania, 1975.
Career
From assistant to associate professor of history, Philadelphia College Textiles and Science, 1974-1984; professor of history, Rutgers University, Camden, New Jersey, 1984-1997; Kranzberg professor of history, Georgia Institute Technology, Atlanta, since 1997. Director research center Hagley Museum and Library., Wilmington, Delaware, since 1992. Cons.to music.
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Proprietary Capitalism: The Textile Manufacture at Philadelphia, 1800-1885
(The greatest textile manufacturing centre in America used...)
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Endless Novelty
( Flexibility, specialization, and niche marketing are bu...)
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Figured Tapestry: Production, Markets and Power in Philadelphia Textiles, 1855-1941
(Focusing on the Philadelphia textile trades from the era ...)
- Endless Novelty by Philip Scranton (2000-10-15)
- Endless Novelty : Specialty Production and American Industrialization, 1865-1925 (Paperback - Revised Ed.)--by Philip Scranton 2000 Edition
- Figured Tapestry: Production, Markets and Power in Philadelphia Textiles, 1855-1941 by Philip Scranton (1989-07-28)
- Endless Novelty by Philip Scranton (1997-10-13)
- Proprietary Capitalism : The Textile Manufacture at Philadelphia, 1800 1885 (Paperback - Revised Ed.)--by Philip Scranton 2002 Edition
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Proprietary Capitalism: The Textile Manufacture at Philadelphia, 1800-1885
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Member American History Association, Business History Conference, Society History of Technology, Consortium of Social Science Association (American History Association delegate since 1996).
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Married Virginia Currier McIntosh, July 12, 1983. 1 child, Christopher Sanford.
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Senior research fellow National Endowment for Humanities, 1989, research fellow Woodrow Wilson Center Smithsonian Institute, 1990, Mellon/National Endowment for Humanities fellow Hagley Museum Library., 1991-1992. Recipient prize Newcomen Society American, 1991.Senior research fellow National Endowment for Humanities, 1989, research fellow Woodrow Wilson Center Smithsonian Institute, 1990, Mellon/National Endowment for Humanities fellow Hagley Museum Library., 1991-1992. Recipient prize Newcomen Society American, 1991.