caa a22 4500 386309876 CHVBK 20180307111542.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198810 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0361233300006724 doi S0361233300006724 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0361233300006724 Segal Howard P. "Little Plants in the Country”: Henry Ford's Village Industries and the Beginning of Decentralized Technology in Modern America [Elektronische Daten] [Howard P. Segal] "Technology Spurs Decentralization Across the Country.” So reads a 1984 New York Times article on real-estate trends in the United States. The contemporary revolution in information processing and transmittal now allows large businesses and other institutions to disperse their offices and other facilities across the country, even across the world, without loss of the policy- and decision-making abilities formerly requiring regular physical proximity. Thanks to computers, word processors, and the like, decentralization has become a fact of life in America and other highly technological societies. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1988 Prospects Cambridge University Press 13(1988-10), 181-223 0361-2333 13<181 1988 13 PTS https://doi.org/10.1017/S0361233300006724 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0361233300006724 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Segal Howard P. NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Prospects Cambridge University Press 13(1988-10), 181-223 0361-2333 13<181 1988 13 PTS CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge