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Building the Trident network : a study of the enrollment of people, knowledge, and machines /
In Building the Trident Network, Maggie Mort approaches the United Kingdom's Trident submarine and missile system as a sociotechnical network. Drawing on the sociology of scientific and technical knowledge and on actor-network theory, Mort recounts how the Trident program was stabilized in the...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
MIT Press,
©2002.
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| Colección: | Inside Technology Ser.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgments ix
- Introduction 1
- I
- Simplifying Production
- 1
- Large-Scale Technologies: Ambivalence and Coercion 17
- 2
- From Diversity to "Core Business" 33
- H
- Reinforcing the Network
- 3
- Technological Roads Not Taken: The Constant Speed Generator Drive 53
- 4
- Constructing a Core Workforce 79
- HI
- Alternatives
- Winning the "Technical Arguments" 111
- 6
- Building a Counter-Network 129
- Iv
- Closures
- 7
- Human Redundancy: An Exercise in Disenrollment 161
- 8
- Softening the Facts 175
- Appendix Employment Data from Lazard Brothers Sale Documents, as
- Reproduced in Oceans of Work 185
- Notes 187
- Bibliography 205
- Index 213.