The Rational Factory

Architecture, Technology and Work in America's Age of Mass Production

Lindy Biggs (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

224 Seiten

2003
Johns Hopkins University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8018-7245-7 (ISBN)

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Searching for a "rational" workplace, turn-of-the-century engineers and industrial architects recast the factory itself in the image of the machine. Indeed, they considered the factory building the "master machine," containing and coordinating all of the machinery within. Such rational factory planning improved production speed and the management of workers. Once created, the rational factory transformed the nature of work, both human and mechanical. In The Rational Factory, Lindy Biggs contends that factory design played a crucial role in the development of American mass production. Her interdisciplinary study draws from the fields of business history, engineering, technology, architecture, and theories of modernity. Why did some people want to rationalize the factory, she asks, and how did the system impact those who worked under it?

Lindy Biggs teaches history at Auburn University.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	26.4.2003
Reihe/Serie	Studies in Industry and Society
Zusatzinfo	30 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	Baltimore, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	363 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Technikgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
	Naturwissenschaften
	Technik
ISBN-10	0-8018-7245-6 / 0801872456
ISBN-13	978-0-8018-7245-7 / 9780801872457
Zustand	Neuware