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Productivity machines : German appropriations of American technologies from mass production to computer automation /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schlombs, Corinna (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, [2019]
Series:History of computing.
Subjects:
Production engineering > Germany > History.
Technology transfer > United States > History.
Industrial productivity > Germany > History.
Technical assistance, American.
Table of Contents:
  • Measuring productivity at the US Bureau of Labor Statistics
  • Weimar rationalization appropriates American productivity
  • The Marshall plans productivity revolution
  • US management and labor debate political and economic values of productivity
  • German perceptions of US productivity
  • Co-determining German labor relations
  • IBM : an American corporation in Germany
  • Computing technology : productivity promise or automation threat?