دانلود کتاب Forcing the Factory of the Future: Cybernation and Societal Institutions

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Contents......Page 10
Tables......Page 13
Acknowledgements......Page 14
List of acronyms and abbreviations......Page 16
I The workshop versus the factory......Page 18
1 Introduction: explaining factory evolution......Page 20
2 Past production paradigms: the workshop, Taylorism and Fordism......Page 40
3 Productivity for prosperity: industrial renewal and Cold War politics......Page 68
II Technologies of control......Page 92
Overview......Page 94
4 Technological evolution and the pathology of batch production......Page 97
5 Numerical control, work organisation and societal institutions......Page 118
III Cybernation and flexibility......Page 144
Overview......Page 146
6 The cybernated factory and the American dream......Page 148
7 An American deviant: FMS at Alpha......Page 168
8 Easy-peasy Japanesy: flexible automation in Japan......Page 182
9 Revolution from above: FMS in Britain......Page 207
10 The third Italy and technological dualism......Page 234
11 Conclusion: the struggle continues......Page 261
Appendix Sources and methods......Page 277
Notes......Page 281
Bibliography......Page 289
Index......Page 307