Download or read book When the Machine Stopped written by Max Holland and published by Harvard Business Review Press. This book was released on 1990-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the careful craftsmanship of machine tools to the ingenious crafting of a leveraged buy-out and the inticacies of a bitter trade dispute, the author tells the life-and-death story of a machine company called Burgmaster. Named one of the 10 best business books of 1989 by Business Week, this provides a wealth of information about innovation, foreign and domestic competition, employee relations, leveraged buy-outs and much more.