I’ve just read Wrecked, a new book on the decline of the US auto industry by sociologists Joshua Murray and Michael Schwartz, and like it a lot. Let me try to write a thread about why. 1/n

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The conventional understanding is that “flexible production” (just-in-time inventory management, collaborative relationships with suppliers, workers engaged in innovation process) is something invented by Toyota post-WWII. 2/n