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Most economic historians characterise the period between 1860 and the First World War as a period of economic globalisation and convergence in which the culture of modern industrialism evolved, spread throughout the manufacturing world and came to have a fateful impact upon the dynamics of social, political and economic relations within every polity it touched.1
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Jeffrey G. Williamson, ‘Globalization, Convergence, and History’, The Journal of Economic History, 56 (June 1996) 277.
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Joseph Bradley, Guns for the Tsar: American Technology and the Small Arms Industry in Nineteenth-century Russia (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1990), pp. 99–129.
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Cecelia F. Bucki, ‘Dilution and Craft Tradition: Bridgeport, Connecticut, Munitions Workers, 1915–1919’, Social Science History, 4 (February 1980) 105–24; David Montgomery, ‘Strikes of Machinists in the United States, 1870–1922’, in Haimson and Tilly, Strikes, Wars and Revolutions, pp. 271–2, 277–8; Montgomery, The Fall of the House of Labor, pp. 169–70, 193, 282–6, 327–9.
For the teething problems experienced by Ford in 1913, see, for example, Carl H. A. Dassbach, ‘The Origins of Fordism: the Introduction of Mass Production and the Five-Dollar Wage’, Critical Sociology, 18 (spring 1991) 77–90.
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Zuckerman, F.R. (2002). The Russian Army and American Industry, 1915–17: Globalisation and the Transfer of Technology. In: Wheatcroft, S.G. (eds) Challenging Traditional Views of Russian History. Studies in Russian and East European History and Society. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230506114_3
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