1st Edition
Forces of Production A Social History of Industrial Automation
By David Noble
Copyright 2011
444 Pages
by
Routledge
444 Pages
by
Routledge
427 Pages
by
Routledge
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Focusing on the design and implementation of computer-based automatic machine tools, David F. Noble challenges the idea that technology has a life of its own. Technology has been both a convenient scapegoat and a universal solution, serving to disarm critics, divert attention, depoliticize debate, and dismiss discussion of the fundamental antagonisms and inequalities that continue to beset... Read more
One: Command and Control; One: The Setting; Two: The Setting: The War at Home; Three: Power and the Power of Ideas; Four: Toward the Automatic Factory; Two: Social Choice in Machine Design; Five: By the Numbers I; Six: By the Numbers II; Seven: The Road Not Taken; Three: A New Industrial Revolution; Eight: Development; Nine: Diffusion:; Ten: Deployment; Eleven: Who’s Running the Shop?; Epilogue: Another Look at Progress
Biography
Noble, David
