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The Mantra of Efficiency : From Waterwheel to Social Control /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore :
The Johns Hopkins University Press,
2008.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.