Trust and Power

Consumers, the Modern Corporation, and the Making of the United States Automobile Market

AvSally H. Clarke

Häftad, Engelska, 2009

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Trust and Power argues that corporations have faced conflicts with the very consumers whose loyalty they sought. The book provides novel insights into the dialogue between corporations and consumers by examining the car industry during the twentieth century. In the new market at the turn of the century, car manufacturers produced defective cars, and consumers faced risks of physical injuries as well as financial losses. By the 1920s, cars were sold in a mass market where state agencies intervened to monitor, however imperfectly, product quality and fair pricing mechanisms. After 1945, the market matured as most US families came to rely on car transport. Again, the state intervened to regulate relations between buyers and sellers in terms of who had access to credit, and thus the ability to purchase expensive durables like cars.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2009-08-28
Mått:152 x 229 x 18 mm
Vikt:470 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:316
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9780521120388

Utforska kategorier

Industrialismen och industrihistoria inom Historia och arkeologi

Mer om författaren

Sally H. Clarke, Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin, specializes in the political economy of the United States during the 20th century. Her interdisciplinary interests are reflected in articles in the Journal of Design History, Law and History Review, and Business History. She has been a Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (Harvard University) and the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies (Princeton University). She is the author of Regulation and the Revolution in United States Farm Productivity.

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"...anyone interested in the early years of the automobile industry or creative scholarship in business history will profit from reading this book." -Mark R. Wilson, Journal of Interdisciplinary History

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction; Part I. A New Market, 1896–1916: 1. Risks of innovation, risks of injury; 2. New firms and the problem of social costs; Part II. A Mass Market, 1916–41: 3. Corporate strategies and consumers' loyalty; 4. Engineering a mass product; 5. A machine age aesthetic; 6. The franchised car dealer and consumers' marketing dilemma; Part III. A Mature Market, 1945–65: 7. Automobiles and institutional change; Conclusion; Appendix: Automobile dealer agreements and sales manager contracts, 1900–14; Index.