Organization, Automation, and Society : The Scientific Revolution in Industry / Robert A. Brady.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brady, Robert A., Author.

Series:

Publications of the Institute of Business and Economic Research.

Publications of the Institute of Business and Economic Research

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Industrial organization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (504 p.)

Edition:

2nd printing, Reprint 2020

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2021]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1961.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface

Contents

PART I. Variables Which Condition Success

I. Introduction: Characteristics of the Scientific Revolution in Industry

II. The Handicap Race with Nature

III. Science as the Key to Resource Innovation

IV. The Delicate Moving Balance between Order and Innovation

PART II. The Sweep and Inner Logic of the New Industrial Order

V. The Principles of Unitization in Mining

VI. Determinants and Prospects of Industrialized Agriculture

VII. The Chemical Revolution in the Materials Foundation of Industry

VIII. The Permeation of Automation Processing

IX. The Problem of Inter-Media Traffic Unification

X. Evolution of the Universal Energy Pool

XI. The Possible Impact on Goods Distribution

XII. Integration of Telecommunications Networks

XIII. Recapitulation and the First Sum of Consequences

NOTES

INDEX

Notes:

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Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780520319684

0520319680

OCLC:

1243310875