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From Industry to Alchemy: Burgmaster, a Machine Tool Company Paperback – January 1, 1989

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A frequent writer on business and contemporary history, Holland (U. of Virginia) interviewed his own father and other long-time employees of the company to offer a very different view than it promulgated when asking for government relief from foreign competition in the early 1980s. The original title was more pointed: When the Machine Stopped: A Cautionary Tale from Industrial America , published by the Harvard Business School Press. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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    January 1, 1989
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  6. ISBN-10
    158798153X
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...Combines fascinating, creative characters; numbercrunchers; growing corporate disdain for manufacturing; tangible consequences of Washington and Wall Street gone crazy. -- From Turnarounds and Workouts by Gail Owens Hoelscher

...One of the most important... sagas of an American industrial enterprise that I've read for a long time... -- Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.

Anyone who wants to understand American business must read (this...) -- BusinessWeek, The Ten Best Books of 1989

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This retitled book is a reprint of When the Machine Stopped: A Cautionary Tale from Industrial America, a work named by Business Week as one of the ten best business books of 1989. By tracing the life and death of a small machine tool company in California, the author presents the reasons for its failure to innovate and survive fierce competition in a global economy. But it is more than the story of one obscure manufacturer's demise. It is also a disturbing account of how speculation trumps enterprise: Washington gets embroiled in trade politics, while Wall Street engages in financial engineering that rewards a handful of executives and investors.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Beard Books Inc (January 1, 1989)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 352 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 158798153X
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1587981531
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.19 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1.25 x 9 inches
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Max Holland is a journalist, author, and editor of Washington Decoded, an online publication.

A 1972 graduate of Antioch College, he is a contributing editor to The Nation and the Wilson Quarterly, and sits on the editorial advisory board of the International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence. He is the author, editor, or co-author of six books, most recently Leak: Why Mark Felt Became Deep Throat (University Press of Kansas, March 2012) and Blind over Cuba: The Photo Gap and the Missile Crisis (Texas A&M University Press, September 2012).

His articles have appeared in a variety of general and scholarly publications, including the Atlantic Monthly, American Heritage, the New York Times, the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Baltimore Sun, Studies in Intelligence, the Journal of Cold War Studies, Reviews in American History, and online at History News Network. He has also received numerous grants in support of his research and writing, including fellowships from the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, National Endowment for the Humanities, German Marshall Fund, and the Guggenheim Foundation.

In 2001, Holland won the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award, bestowed jointly by Harvard University's Nieman Foundation and the Columbia University School of Journalism, for a forthcoming narrative history of the Warren Commission, to be published by Alfred A. Knopf. That same year he won a Studies in Intelligence Award from the Central Intelligence Agency, the first writer working outside the US government to be so recognized. In 1989, Business Week named his first book, When the Machine Stopped, one of the top ten business books of the year.

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This is an important book. It describes how many of our important industries were destroyed by greedy investors. These investors cared nothing about the products being made and sold, nor did they care about the customers who used the products, The results are the loss of an industry, and jobs. This is happening today. I worked for a company that this happened to. Greed is bad!
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