The Rational Factory
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The Rational Factory
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Author : Lindy Biggs
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
The Rational Factory written by Lindy Biggs and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Business & Economics categories.
"Traditional business history at its best, essential reading for anyone interested in the history of efficiency, technology, and work in the United States." -- Journal of American History
The Rational Factory
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Author : Lindy Biggs
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
The Rational Factory written by Lindy Biggs and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Business & Economics categories.
"Traditional business history at its best, essential reading for anyone interested in the history of efficiency, technology, and work in the United States." -- Journal of American History
Den Rationella Fabriken
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Author : Lisa Brunnström
language : de
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
Den Rationella Fabriken written by Lisa Brunnström and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with categories.
The Digital Factory
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Author : Moritz Altenried
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2022-01-05
The Digital Factory written by Moritz Altenried and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-05 with Political Science categories.
The Digital Factoryreveals the hidden human labor that supports today’s digital capitalism. The workers of today’s digital factory include those in Amazon warehouses, delivery drivers, Chinese gaming workers, Filipino content moderators, and rural American search engine optimizers. Repetitive yet stressful, boring yet often emotionally demanding, these jobs require little formal qualification, but can demand a large degree of skills and knowledge. This work is often hidden behind the supposed magic of algorithms and thought to be automated, but it is in fact highly dependent on human labor. The workers of today’s digital factory are not as far removed from a typical auto assembly line as we might think. Moritz Altenried takes us inside today’s digital factories, showing that they take very different forms, including gig economy platforms, video games, and Amazon warehouses. As Altenried shows, these digital factories often share surprising similarities with factories from the industrial age. As globalized capitalism and digital technology continue to transform labor around the world, Altenried offers a timely and poignant exploration of how these changes are restructuring the social division of labor and its geographies as well as the stratifications and lines of struggle.
Accounting And Science
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Author : Michael Power
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1996-06-28
Accounting And Science written by Michael Power and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-06-28 with Business & Economics categories.
In recent years policy makers and scientists have become increasingly interested in the economics of science, and in particular in the relationship between accounting and science. This book, originally published as a special issue of the journal Science in Context , provides a truly interdisciplinary approach to this subject. The contributors explore, in a number of different ways, the constitutive role that practices of economic calculation play in the conduct of science and the forms of economic life within which science is embedded. Challenging conventional views, they suggest that if scientific and accounting practices are to be properly understood, they must be studied in relation to a complex background of specialist communities, funding institutions and demands for public accountability. This book will be invaluable for scholars and policy makers working in the field.
Every Farm A Factory
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Author : Deborah Kay Fitzgerald
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2008-10-01
Every Farm A Factory written by Deborah Kay Fitzgerald and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-10-01 with Business & Economics categories.
During the early part of the 20th century farming in America was transformed from a pre-industrial to an industrial activity. This book explores the modernization of the 1920s, which saw farmers adopt not just new technology, but also the financial cultural & ideological apparatus of industrialism.
The Vehicle Factory
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Author : Marlin Knecht
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010-06-30
The Vehicle Factory written by Marlin Knecht and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06-30 with categories.
In The Shadow Of War And Empire
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Author : Görkem Akgöz
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2023-12-14
In The Shadow Of War And Empire written by Görkem Akgöz and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-12-14 with History categories.
In the Shadow of War and Empire offers a site-specific history of Ottoman and Turkish industrialisation through the lens of a mid-nineteenth-century cotton factory in the “Turkish Manchester,” the name chosen by the Ottomans for the industrial complex they built in the 1840s in Istanbul, which, in the contemporary words of one of the country’s most prominent contemporary Marxist theorists, became “the secret to and the basis of Turkish capitalism" in the 1930s.
Electric Light
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Author : Sandy Isenstadt
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2018-09-25
Electric Light written by Sandy Isenstadt and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-25 with Architecture categories.
How electric light created new spaces that transformed the built environment and the perception of modern architecture. In this book, Sandy Isenstadt examines electric light as a form of architecture—as a new, uniquely modern kind of building material. Electric light was more than just a novel way of brightening a room or illuminating a streetscape; it brought with it new ways of perceiving and experiencing space itself. If modernity can be characterized by rapid, incessant change, and modernism as the creative response to such change, Isenstadt argues, then electricity—instantaneous, malleable, ubiquitous, evanescent—is modernity's medium. Isenstadt shows how the introduction of electric lighting at the end of the nineteenth century created new architectural spaces that altered and sometimes eclipsed previously existing spaces. He constructs an architectural history of these new spaces through five examples, ranging from the tangible miracle of the light switch to the immaterial and borderless gloom of the wartime blackout. He describes what it means when an ordinary person can play God by flipping a switch; when the roving cone of automobile headlights places driver and passenger at the vertex of a luminous cavity; when lighting in factories is seen to enhance productivity; when Times Square became an emblem of illuminated commercial speech; and when the absence of electric light in a blackout produced a new type of space. In this book, the first sustained examination of the spatial effects of electric lighting, Isenstadt reconceives modernism in architecture to account for the new perceptual conditions and visual habits that followed widespread electrification.
Architecture And Abstraction
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Author : Pier Vittorio Aureli
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2023-11-07
Architecture And Abstraction written by Pier Vittorio Aureli and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-07 with Architecture categories.
A landmark study of abstraction in architectural history, theory, and practice that challenges our assumptions about the meaning of abstract forms. In this theoretical study of abstraction in architecture—the first of its kind—Pier Vittorio Aureli argues for a reconsideration of abstraction, its meanings, and its sources. Although architects have typically interpreted abstraction in formal terms—the purposeful reduction of the complexities of design to its essentials—Aureli shows that abstraction instead arises from the material conditions of building production. In a lively study informed by Walter Benjamin, Karl Marx, Alfred Sohn-Rethel, and other social theorists, this book presents abstraction in architecture not as an aesthetic tendency but as a movement that arises from modern divisions of labor and consequent social asymmetries. These divisions were anticipated by the architecture of antiquity, which established a distinction between manual and intellectual labor, and placed the former in service to the latter. Further abstractions arose as geometry, used for measuring territories, became the intermediary between land and money and eventually produced the logic of the grid. In our own time, architectural abstraction serves the logic of capitalism and embraces the premise that all things can be exchanged—even experience itself is a commodity. To resist this turn, Aureli seeks a critique of architecture that begins not by scaling philosophical heights, but by standing at the ground level of material practice.