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Productivity machines : German appropriations of American technologies from mass production to computer automation / Corinna Schlombs.

Van Pelt Library TS73 .S35 2019
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Schlombs, Corinna, author.
Series:
History of computing
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Production engineering--Germany--History.
Production engineering.
Technology transfer--United States--History.
Technology transfer.
Industrial productivity--Germany--History.
Industrial productivity.
Technical assistance, American.
History.
Germany.
United States.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:
xii, 349 pages ; 23 cm.
Place of Publication:
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2019]
Contents:
Measuring productivity at the US Bureau of Labor Statistics
Weimar rationalization appropriates American productivity
The Marshall plans productivity revolution
US management and labor debate political and economic values of productivity
German perceptions of US productivity
Co-determining German labor relations
IBM : an American corporation in Germany
Computing technology : productivity promise or automation threat?
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780262537391
0262537397
OCLC:
1056202583

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