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| Author: | Reynard, P. C. |
| Title: | Manufacturing quality in the pre-industrial age: finding value in diversity |
| Journal: | Economic History Review
2000 : AUG, VOL. 53:3, p. 493-516 |
| Index terms: | MANUFACTURING QUALITY DIVERSITY |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | When deployed on a large and rational scale and committed to high throughput levels, early modern manufacturing methods inevitably yielded a substantial proportion of non-standard and defective items. This proportion could only increase as the pace of work accelerated in the eighteenth century. Manufacturers regained a degree of control over their marketing strategies through the more or less rigorous sorting of this output, in a pattern suited to their markets. |
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