1. For a more detailed discussion of mass production in the United States, see Robert H. Hayes, Steven C. Wheelright and Kim B. Clark, Dynamic Manufacturing, The Free Press, 1988, pp. 31–60.
2. A comprehensive treatment of the history of General Motors from the early 1920s through the end of World War II can be found in Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., My Years with General Motors, Doubleday, 1963.
3. An excellent reference on the evolution of post-World War II Japanese industry is James P. Womack, Daniel T. Jones, and Daniel Roos, The Machine That Changed the World: The Story of Lean Production, Harper Perennial, 1990.
4. James P. Womack, Daniel T. Jones, and Daniel Roos, The Machine That Changed the World: The Story of Lean Production, Harper Perennial, 1990.