When the Machine Stopped: A Cautionary Tale from Industrial America
by Max Holland
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From the careful craftsmanship of machine tools to the ingenious crafting of a leveraged buy-out and the inticacies of a bitter trade dispute, the author tells the life-and-death story of a machine company called Burgmaster. Named one of the 10 best business books of 1989 by Business Week, this provides a wealth of information about innovation, foreign and domestic competition, employee relations, leveraged buy-outs and much more.Tags
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Max Holland is a contributing editor at The Nation and The Wilson Quarterly.
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- Nonfiction, Economics, Business, Politics and Government, History
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- 338.7 — Society, government, & culture Economics Production Business Enterprises
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- HD9703 .U54 .B875 — Social sciences Industries. Land use. Labor Industries. Land use. Labor Special industries and trades Mechanical industries
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