Forces of Production: A Social History of Industrial Automation
Autor David Nobleen Limba Engleză Hardback – 6 oct 2017
Noble shows how the system of "numerical control," perfected at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and put into general industrial use, was chosen over competing systems for reasons other than the technical and economic superiority typically advanced by its promoters. Numerical control took shape at an MIT laboratory rather than in a manufacturing setting, and a market for the new technology was created, not by cost-minded producers, but instead by the U. S. Air Force. Competing methods, equally promising, were rejected because they left control of production in the hands of skilled workers, rather than in those of management or programmers.
Noble demonstrates that engineering design is influenced by political, economic, managerial, and sociological considerations, while the deployment of equipment illustrated by a detailed case history of a large General Electric plant in Massachusetts can become entangled with such matters as labor classification, shop organization, managerial responsibility, and patterns of authority. In its examination of technology as a human, social process, Forces of Production is a path-breaking contribution to the understanding of this phenomenon in American society.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781138523647
ISBN-10: 113852364X
Pagini: 444
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 113852364X
Pagini: 444
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Cuprins
One: Command and Control; One: The Setting; Two: The Setting: The War at Home; Three: Power and the Power of Ideas; Four: Toward the Automatic Factory; Two: Social Choice in Machine Design; Five: By the Numbers I; Six: By the Numbers II; Seven: The Road Not Taken; Three: A New Industrial Revolution; Eight: Development; Nine: Diffusion:; Ten: Deployment; Eleven: Who’s Running the Shop?; Epilogue: Another Look at Progress
Descriere
Focusing on the design and implementation of computer-based automatic machine tools, David F