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