Hagley Perspectives on Business and Culture

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1. The Technological Fix

   How People Use Technology to Create and Solve Problems

   Edited by Lisa Rosner

   Series: Hagley Perspectives on Business and Culture

   The term "technological fix" should mean a fix provided by technology--a solution for all of our problems, from medicine and food production to the environment and business. Instead, technological fix has come to mean a cheap, quick fix using inappropriate technology that usually creates more...

   Published August 8th 2004 by Routledge
2. Industrializing Organisms

   Introducing Evolutionary History

   Edited by Susan Schrepfer, Philip Scranton

   Series: Hagley Perspectives on Business and Culture

   Published October 30th 2003 by Routledge
3. Food Nations

   Selling Taste in Consumer Societies

   Edited by Warren Belasco, Philip Scranton

   Series: Hagley Perspectives on Business and Culture

   This original collection abandons culinary nostalgia and the cataloguing of regional cuisines to examine the role of food and food marketing in constructing culture, consumer behavior, and national identity....

   Published October 11th 2001 by Routledge
4. Boys and their Toys

   Masculinity, Class and Technology in America

   Edited by Roger Horowitz

   Series: Hagley Perspectives on Business and Culture

   Negotiating the divide between "respectable manhood" and "rough manhood" this book explores masculinity at work and at play through provocative essays on labor unions, railroads, vocational training programs, and NASCAR racing....

   Published August 5th 2001 by Routledge
5. Beauty and Business

   Commerce, Gender, and Culture in Modern America

   Edited by Philip Scranton

   Series: Hagley Perspectives on Business and Culture

   Leading historians explore how our ideas of what is attractive are influenced by a broad range of social and economic factors. They force us to reckon with the ways that beauty has been made, bought and sold in modern America....

   Published December 19th 2000 by Routledge