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OverviewSearching 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 co-ordinating all of the machinery within. Such rational factory planning improved production speed and the management of workers. Once created, the rational factory transformed the nature of work, both human and mechanical. In this book, Lindy Biggs contends that factory design played a crucial role in the development of American mass production. Her interdisciplinary study draws from the fields of business history, engineering, technology, architecture and theories of modernity. Why did some people want to rationalize the factory, she asks, and how did the system impact those who worked under it? Full Product DetailsAuthor: Lindy Biggs (Auburn University)Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press Edition: New edition Volume: 11 Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.363kg ISBN: 9780801872457ISBN 10: 0801872456 Pages: 224 Publication Date: 26 April 2003 Recommended Age: From 17 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsReviews<p> The Rational Factory is a substantial contribution to the history of industrial engineering and industrial architecture in the 19th and 20th centuries.--Charles K. Hyde Industrial Archeology <p> Enhances our understanding of the shift away from a more romantic nineteenth-century artisanal world to the rational, machine- and factory-based, mass production of the twentieth century. -- Science, Technology, and Society <p>An important addition to the literature of industrial development.--Paul Israel American Historical Review Author InformationLindy Biggs teaches history at Auburn University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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