Technology and society in twentieth century America : an anthology / [edited by] Randall E. Stross.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stross, Randall E.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Technology--Social aspects--United States.

Technology.

Technology--Social aspects.

United States.

Physical Description:

vi, 273 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago, Ill. : Dorsey Press, 1989.

Contents:

The Americans: the democratic experience / Daniel J. Boorstin

The resisted revolution: urban American and the industrialization of agriculture, 1900-1930 / David B. Danbom

Labor and monopoly capital: the degradation of work in the twentieth century / Harry Braverman

America by design: science, technology, and the rise of corporate capitalism / David F. Noble

The new industrial state / John Kenneth Galbraith

Birth control in American: the career of Margaret Sanger / David M. Kennedy

Medical Nemesis: the expropriation of health / Ivan Illich

The car culture / James Flink

Crabgrass frontier: the suburbanization of the United States / Kenneth T. Jackson

The making of the atomic bomb / Richard Rhodes

By the bombʼs early light: American thought and culture at the dawn of the atomic age

Paul Boyer

The heavens and the earth: a political history of the space age / Walter A. McDougall

More work for mother: the ironies of household technology from the open hearth to the microwave / Ruth Schwartz Cowan

Amusing ourselves to death: public discourse in the age of show business / Neil Postman

The second self: computers and the human spirit / Sherry Turkle.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0256062161

9780256062168

OCLC:

17732181