Second Industrial Divide

Michael J. Piore is Mitsui Professor of Contemporary Technology at M.I.T.Charles F. Sabel is Ford International Associate Professor of Social Science at M.I.T.

• * Introduction * Mass Production as Destiny and Blind Decision * The Corporation * Stabilizing the Economy * The Global and the Microscopic * The Pieces Repositioned: Mass and Craft Production Abroad * The Mass-Production Economy in Crisis * Corporate Responses to the Crisis * History, Practice, and National Strategies * Possibilities for Prosperity: International Keynesianism and Flexible Specialization * The United States and Flexible Specialization