The mantra of efficiency [electronic resource] : from waterwheel to social control / Jennifer Karns Alexander.
2008
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Title
The mantra of efficiency [electronic resource] : from waterwheel to social control / Jennifer Karns Alexander.
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Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
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xvii, 233 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-199) and index.
Contents
Introduction: The varieties of efficiency
Static and dynamic efficiency: the waterwheels of Smeaton and the Franklin Institute
The effects of control: Gérard-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.
Static and dynamic efficiency: the waterwheels of Smeaton and the Franklin Institute
The effects of control: Gérard-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.
Reproduction
Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2014. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) Mode of access: Intranet.
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ACLS Humanities E-Book (Series)
American philosophy series ; no. 7.
American philosophy series ; no. 7.
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