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Our claim is that the present deterioration in economic performance results from the limits of the model of industrial development that is founded on mass production: the use of special-purpose (product-specific)machine and of semiskilled workers to produce standardized goods. Our aim here is to show the alternative solution instead of mass production. We focus on the industrial development history in Hamamatsu district. The characteristics of industrial spaces in Hamamatsu is self-imposed development. Industrial development in Hamamatsu was supported by craft production. Its foundation was the idea that machines and processes could augment the craftsman's skill, allowing the workers to embody his or her knowledge in ever more varied products: the more flexible the machine, the more widely applicable the process, the more it expanded the craftsman's capacity for productive expression. It is the case of industrial development in Hamamatsu, we think, that is most likely to catalyze Japanese efforts to rebuild the economy on the model of self-imposed development for the idea of an economy of craft communities - some organized in large corporations; many regionally based - speaks to the Japanese tradition of localism. |
