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28
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Français
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Documents
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2000
Description
This article studies the historical movement of merchandization of industrial standards, i.e. the transition from standardization of products (limited to the productive sphere, the focus of engineers) to approval of goods and services (intended rather for the market and the consumer). Based on two case studies on the standardization of gas appliances and furniture in the wake of World War II, the author shows how French standardizers were led to invent and then develop, beyond pure economic necessity, the NF label, indicating compliance with French standards. Keen to preserve their usefulness as consensus-makers vis-à-vis powerful industrial partners, standardizers found in approval and the rhetoric of consumer interest the means to promote a point of view and specific expertise in standards development. But real consumers (or at least consumerists) soon took standardizes literally and, like the brooms of the apprentice sorcerer, impacted on the evolution of the standardization system.
27 pages
Source : Persée ; Ministère de la jeunesse, de l’éducation nationale et de la recherche, Direction de l’enseignement supérieur, Sous-direction des bibliothèques et de la documentation.
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Publié par
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Publié le
01 janvier 2000
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Langue
Français
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Poids de l'ouvrage
1 Mo