There are a couple of JSTOR articles about the introduction of the Gribeauval system driving the need for interchangeable parts and the resulting effects on society mainly the feudal system meeting modern production methods.

Alder, Ken. "Innovation and Amnesia: Engineering Rationality and the Fate of Interchangeable Parts Manufacturing in France," JSTOR Technology and Culture, Vol. 38, No. 2 (Apr. 1997), pp. 273-311.

Alder Ken, "Making Things the Same: Representation, Tolerance and the End of the Ancien Regime in France," JSTOR, Social Studies of Science, Vol. 28, No. 4, (Aug. 1998), pp. 499-545.

Regards,
Terry