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cord-309379-ml75kvl5	Kanger, Laur	Emergence, consolidation and dominance of meta-regimes: Exploring the historical evolution of mass production (1765–1972) from the deep transitions perspective	2020-09-09		.txt	text/plain	13229	631	43	Instead of focusing on dominant technologies or common practices the development of mass production is understood as the emergence of a meta-regime, i.e. a set of mutually aligned rules guiding production activities in multiple socio-technical systems. Secondly, given our focus on the engineering dimension, the narrative might somewhat overstate the prominence of USA while downplaying the contribution of different countries to the correlates of mass production in other dimensions (economy, policy, everyday life, culture), e.g. interwar era Soviet experiments with centralized planning as a precursor for large-scale state intervention in the entire Transatlantic region after World War II. These included a shortage of skilled labour (thereby providing incentives for investing in machinery), road and rail network enabling nation-wide markets, fast population growth coupled with rising purchasing power, the emergence and growth of large-scale corporations able to capture various economies of scale, the rise of the engineers as a new and increasingly influential social group but also the American cultural values favouring the development of a highly accelerated society [15,38, pp.	./cache/cord-309379-ml75kvl5.txt	./txt/cord-309379-ml75kvl5.txt