When the Machine Stopped: A Cautionary Tale from Industrial America.
Mansel G. Blackford, Max Holland · The American Historical Review · 1991
From the careful craftsmanship of machine tools to the ingenious crafting of a leveraged buy-out and the inticacies of a bitter trade dispute, the author tells the life-and-death story of a machine company called Burgmaster. Named one of the 10 best business books of 1989 by Business Week, this provides a wealth of information about innovation, foreign and domestic competition, employee relations, leveraged buy-outs and much more.