A new phoenix? Modern putting-out in the Modena knitwear industry.

The putting-out system of production served as a bridge between traditional handicraft production and modern manufacturing. Before centralized factories, merchants put out raw materials to formerly independent craftsmen and to subsistence farmers. The process of making the materials into finished...

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Published in:Administrative Science Quarterly Vol. 40; pp. 34 - 60
Main Author: Lazerson, Mark
Format: Article
Published: Administrative Science Quarterly March 1995
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