The mantra of efficiency : from waterwheel to social control /
| Основен автор: | Alexander, Jennifer Karns, 1963- |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2008.
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Print version::
Mantra of efficiency. |
Съдържание:
- Introduction: The varieties of efficiency
- Static and dynamic efficiency: the waterwheels of Smeaton and the Franklin Institute
- The effects of control: Gerard-Joseph Christian and perfected machines
- Economy of nature: Darwin, Marshall, and the costs of efficiency
- Balance and transformation: technical and popular efficiency in the Progressive Era United States
- An island of mechanical predictability: efficient worker seating in late Weimar Germany
- Pride in efficiency: the dispute over Time on the cross
- Global efficiency: an enduring industrial value in a postindustrial world
- Conclusion: The future of efficiency
- Notes
- Bibliographic essay
- Index.