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Visions of modernity : American business and the modernization of Germany / Mary Nolan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nolan, Mary, 1944- author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Industrial management--Germany--History--20th century.
- Industrial management.
- Industrial management--United States--History--20th century.
- Industrial relations--Germany--History--20th century.
- Industrial relations.
- Industrial relations--United States--History--20th century.
- Germany--Economic policy--1918-1933.
- Germany.
- Germany--Social policy.
- United States--Economic policy--To 1933.
- United States.
- United States--Social policy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (337 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Explores the impact of the USA on the German imagination in the critical interwar period of the 1920s, when the USA became Weimar Germany's model in a broad-based movement for economic reform and social modernization. The USA was seen as an intriguing vision for a new social order.
- Contents:
- Contents; Abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 2. Journeys to America; 3. The Infatuation with Fordism; 4. American Economic Success and German Emulation; 5. Work, Workers, and the Workplace in America; 6. The Cultural Consequences of Americanism; 7. The Paradoxes of Productivism; 8. Winners and Losers; 9. Engineering the New Worker; 10. Housework Made Easy; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliographic Essay; Index
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 1994.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 9780197717691
- 0197717691
- 9780199879311
- 0199879311
- 9781280441035
- 1280441038
- 9780198024958
- 0198024959
- 9781423736608
- 1423736605
- 9780195361438
- 0195361431
- 9781601298300
- 1601298307
- OCLC:
- 475957551
- Publisher Number:
- 2027/heb00291 hdl
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