The Second Industrial Divide
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by Michael J. Piore - This is a seminal book on the viability of flexible fabrication as an alternative to mass production. Mass production became the norm not because it achieved the best economic results or efficiency, but because societal forces have steered it towards mass production.
The First Industrial Divide was the Industrial Revolution - a separation between the imperialist and the conquered on the international level. The second industrial divide refers to what happened since then within individual countries, such that an implicit hate of craft production was a result.
Review
Great 4 pager - https://www.jstor.org/stable/2702598?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents
Notes
- Keynesian State - or the interference of government in business cycles - was accepted in the USA with the New Deal. Since then, we are in a Keynesian state - business cycles, with government interference during depressions via control of the money supply
- From first observation, Keynesian economics appear to be a patch on a deeper issue: Financialization in a Neoliberal World Order..