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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Lane, Frederic Chapin, 1900- Ships for victory. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2001 (OCoLC)606587040 |
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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Frederic Chapin Lane; United States. Maritime Commission. |
| ISBN: | 0801867525 9780801867521 |
| OCLC Number: | 45799004 |
| Notes: | "Originally published by Johns Hopkins Press, 1951"--T.p. verso. |
| Description: | xxviii, 881 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | The Commission and the Shipbuilding Industry -- A General View of Wartime Shipbuilding -- The Maritime Commission Before the War -- The Long-Range Program -- Standard Types of Cargo Vessels -- The Shipyards of the Country in 1940 -- Emergency Shipbuilding Before the Declaration of War -- The Inception of the Emergency Program -- Selecting the Sites and Managers -- The Second Wave of Expansion -- The Third Wave -- Popularizing the Program -- Design and Initial Procurement for the Liberty Ship -- The Basic Design Decision and the Working Plans -- Modifications in Design -- Purchasing Through a Central Agent -- The Break with Gibbs and Cox -- Contracts with Shipbuilders and Their Supervision -- Lump-Sum Contracts -- Facilities Contracts -- Manhour Contracts -- Price-Minus Contracts -- The Commission's Supervisory Staff -- Expansion and Reorganization After Pearl Harbor -- The Fourth Wave of Expansion -- The Fifth and Final Wave -- Politics and Administrative Methods in the Selection of Shipyard Sites -- The Commission Under the War Powers -- Decentralization of Supervision -- Excess Capacity and the Cancellation of the Higgins Contract -- The Inclusion of Military Types and the Signs of Over-expansion -- Plans and Progress at the Higgins Yard -- The Decision to Cancel -- Inquest Post-Mortem -- Speed and Productivity in Multiple Production -- Standardization and Subassembly -- The Plans of the New Shipyards -- Assembly-Line Methods -- The Productivity of Labor -- Building the Labor Force -- Job Breakdown and Union Rules. |
| Responsibility: | by Frederic C. Lane ; with the collaboration of Blanche D. Coll, Gerald J. Fischer, David B. Tyler ; charts by Joseph T. Reynolds ; with a new preface by Arthur Donovan. |
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Abstract:
A chronicle of America's intensive shipbuilding programme during World War II, this explores the development of revolutionary construction methods and the recruitment, training, housing and union activities of the workers.
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