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Control through Communication
The Rise of System in American Management
Av JoAnne Yates
Häftad, 1993
417 kr
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A superb historical analysis of the philosophical and technological forces that led to the development of communication genres and processes in the modern American corporation.
Company Men
White-Collar Life and Corporate Cultures in Los Angeles, 1892-1941
Av Clark Davis
Häftad, 2001
347 kr
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America's white-collar workers form the core of the nation's corporate economy and its expansive middle class. But just a century ago, white-collar jobs were new and their future anything but certain. In Company Men Clark Davis places the corporate office at the heart of American social and …
Inventing Ourselves Out of Jobs?
America's Debate over Technological Unemployment, 1929–1981
Av Amy Sue Bix
Häftad, 2002
479 kr
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Americans today often associate scientific and technological change with progress and personal well-being. Yet underneath our confident assumptions lie serious questions. In Inventing Ourselves Out of Jobs? Amy Sue Bix locates the origins of this confusion in the Great Depression, when social and …
Cocaine
From Medical Marvel to Modern Menace in the United States, 1884-1920
Häftad, 2002
494 kr
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In 1884 American physicians discovered the anesthetic value of cocaine, and over the next three decades this substance derived from the coca plant became so popular that it became, ironically, a public health problem. Demand exceeded supply; abuse proliferated. The black market produced a legendary …
Rational Factory
Architecture, Technology and Work in America's Age of Mass Production
Av Lindy Biggs, Philip Scranton
Häftad, 2003
382 kr
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Searching for a "rational" workplace, turn-of-the-century engineers and industrial architects recast the factory itself in the image of the machine. Indeed, they considered the factory building the "master machine," containing and coordinating all of the machinery within. Such rational factory …
Stage to Studio
Musicians and the Sound Revolution, 1890-1950
Av James P. Kraft, Philip B. Scranton
Häftad, 2004
443 kr
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Between the late nineteenth and mid-twentieth century, technology transformed the entertainment industry as much as it did such heavy industries as coal and steel. Among those most directly affected were musicians, who had to adapt to successive inventions and refinements in audio technology-from …
Carriage Trade
Making Horse-Drawn Vehicles in America
Inbunden, 2004
804 kr
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In 1926, the Carriage Builders' National Association met for the last time, signaling the automobile's final triumph over the horse-drawn carriage. Only a decade earlier, carriages and wagons were still a common sight on every Main Street in America. In the previous century, carriage-building had …
Corporate Eye
Photography and the Rationalization of American Commercial Culture, 1884–1929
Inbunden, 2005
710 kr
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In the late nineteenth century, corporate managers began to rely on photography for everything from motion studies to employee selection to advertising. This practice gave rise to many features of modern industry familiar to us today: consulting, "scientific" approaches to business practice, …
Corporate Eye
Photography and the Rationalization of American Commercial Culture, 1884–1929
Häftad, 2008
468 kr
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In the late nineteenth century, corporate managers began to rely on photography for everything from motion studies to employee selection to advertising. This practice gave rise to many features of modern industry familiar to us today: consulting, "scientific" approaches to business practice, …
Women Filmmakers in Early Hollywood
Häftad, 2008
414 kr
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Women Filmmakers in Early Hollywood explores when, how, and why women were accepted as filmmakers in the 1910s and why, by the 1920s, those opportunities had disappeared. In looking at the early film industry as an industry-a place of work-Mahar not only unravels the mystery of the disappearing …
Structuring the Information Age
Life Insurance and Technology in the Twentieth Century
Av JoAnne Yates
Häftad, 2009
426 kr
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Structuring the Information Age provides insight into the largely unexplored evolution of information processing in the commercial sector and the underrated influence of corporate users in shaping the history of modern technology. JoAnne Yates examines how life insurance firms-where good …
Punched-Card Systems and the Early Information Explosion, 1880–1945
Av Lars Heide
Inbunden, 2009
944 kr
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At a time when Internet use is closely tracked and social networking sites supply data for targeted advertising, Lars Heide presents the first academic study of the invention that fueled today's information revolution: the punched card. Early punched cards helped to process the United States census …
Vegas at Odds
Labor Conflict in a Leisure Economy, 1960–1985
Inbunden, 2010
720 kr
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The stories of the shadowy networks and wealthy people who bankrolled and sustained Las Vegas's continuous reinvention are well documented in works of scholarship, journalism, and popular culture. Yet no one has studied closely and over a long period of time the dynamics of the workforce-the casino …
For Business and Pleasure
Red-Light Districts and the Regulation of Vice in the United States, 1890–1933
Inbunden, 2010
726 kr
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Mara L. Keire's history of red-light districts in the United States offers readers a fascinating survey of the business of pleasure from the 1890s through the repeal of Prohibition in 1933. Anti-vice reformers in the late nineteenth century accepted that complete eradication of disreputable …
Auto Mechanics
Technology and Expertise in Twentieth-Century America
Häftad, 2010
502 kr
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The history of automobiles is not just the story of invention, manufacturing, and marketing; it is also a story of repair. Auto Mechanics opens the repair shop to historical study-for the first time-by tracing the emergence of a dirty, difficult, and important profession. Kevin L. Borg's study …
Hotel Dreams
Luxury, Technology, and Urban Ambition in America, 1829–1929
Inbunden, 2011
781 kr
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Winner, 2012 Sally Hacker Prize, Society for the History of Technology Hotel Dreams is a deeply researched and entertaining account of how the hotel's material world of machines and marble integrated into and shaped the society it served. Molly W. Berger offers a compelling history of the American …
Nation of Small Shareholders
Marketing Wall Street after World War II
Inbunden, 2013
670 kr
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Immediately after the frightening Great Crash of 1929, many Americans swore they would "never" or "never again" become involved in the stock market. Yet hordes of Americans eventually did come to embrace equity investing, to an extent actually far greater than the level of popular involvement in …
Chasing Sound
Technology, Culture, and the Art of Studio Recording from Edison to the LP
Häftad, 2016
394 kr
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In Chasing Sound, Susan Schmidt Horning traces the cultural and technological evolution of recording studios in the United States from the first practical devices to the modern multi-track studios of the analog era. Charting the technical development of studio equipment, the professionalization of …
Slain Wood
Papermaking and Its Environmental Consequences in the American South
Av William Boyd
Inbunden, 2015
687 kr
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When the paper industry moved into the South in the 1930s, it confronted a region in the midst of an economic and environmental crisis. Entrenched poverty, stunted labor markets, vast stretches of cutover lands, and severe soil erosion prevailed across the southern states. By the middle of the …
Refrigeration Nation
A History of Ice, Appliances, and Enterprise in America
Häftad, 2016
434 kr
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Only when the power goes off and food spoils do we truly appreciate how much we rely on refrigerators and freezers. In Refrigeration Nation, Jonathan Rees explores the innovative methods and gadgets that Americans have invented to keep perishable food cold-from cutting river and lake ice and …
Hotel Dreams
Luxury, Technology, and Urban Ambition in America, 1829–1929
Häftad, 2016
460 kr
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Winner, 2012 Sally Hacker Prize, Society for the History of Technology Hotel Dreams is a deeply researched and entertaining account of how the hotel's material world of machines and marble integrated into and shaped the society it served. Molly W. Berger offers a compelling history of the American …
Workers' World
Kinship, Community, and Protest in an Industrial Society, 1900-1940
Av John Bodnar
Häftad, 2020
394 kr
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Originally published 1982. Bodnar's central concern in Workers' World is with the working people of Pennsylvania prior to World War II. He examines how ordinary people throughout the state navigated the changing set of industrial relations that fanned out across the United States in the late …
Advertising Progress
American Business and the Rise of Consumer Marketing
Häftad, 2020
812 kr
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Selected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic TitleOriginally published in 1998. Drawing on both documentary and pictorial evidence, Pamela Walker Laird explores the modernization of American advertising to 1920. She links its rise and transformation to changes that affected American …
Ships for the Seven Seas
Philadelphia Shipbuilding in the Age of Industrial Capitalism
Häftad, 2020
617 kr
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Thomas R. Heinrich explores American shipbuilding from the workshop level to subcontracting networks spanning the Delaware Valley.Winner of the North American Society for Oceanic History's John Lyman Book AwardOriginally published in 1996. Sustained by a skilled work force and the Pennsylvania iron …
Imagining Consumers
Design and Innovation from Wedgwood to Corning
Häftad, 2020
703 kr
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Winner of the Hagley Prize in Business History from The Hagley Museum and Library and the Business History ConferenceSelected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic TitleOriginally published in 1999. Imagining Consumers tells for the first time the story of American consumer society from the …
From the American System to Mass Production, 1800-1932
The Development of Manufacturing Technology in the United States
Häftad, 1985
356 kr
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David A. Houndshell's widely acclaimed history explores the American "genius for mass production" and races its origins in the nineteenth-century "American system" of manufacture.Previous writers on the American system have argued that the technical problems of mass production had been solved by …
Cocaine
From Medical Marvel to Modern Menace in the United States, 1884-1920
Inbunden, 2000
537 kr
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In 1884 American physicians discovered the anesthetic value of cocaine, and over the next three decades this substance derived from the coca plant became so popular that it became, ironically, a public health problem. Demand exceeded supply; abuse proliferated. The black market produced a legendary …
Company Men
White-Collar Life and Corporate Cultures in Los Angeles, 1892-1941
Av Clark Davis
Inbunden, 2000
564 kr
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America's white-collar workers form the core of the nation's corporate economy and its expansive middle class, but at the start of the 20th century, white-collar jobs were new and their future was anything but certain. In this work, Clark Davis places the corporate office at the heart of American …
Structuring the Information Age
Life Insurance and Technology in the Twentieth Century
Av JoAnne Yates
Inbunden, 2005
604 kr
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Structuring the Information Age provides insight into the largely unexplored evolution of information processing in the commercial sector and the underrated influence of corporate users in shaping the history of modern technology. JoAnne Yates examines how life insurance firms-where good …
Nylon and Bombs
DuPont and the March of Modern America
Inbunden, 2007
484 kr
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What do nylon stockings and atomic bombs have in common? DuPont. The chemical firm of DuPont de Nemours pioneered the development of both nylon and plutonium, playing an important role in the rise of mass consumption and the emergence of the notorious "military-industrial complex." In this …
