Mantra of Efficiency (ePub)
From Waterwheel to Social Control
(Sprache: Englisch)
Winner, 2010 Edelstein Prize, Society for the History of TechnologyEfficiency-associated with individual discipline, superior management, and increased profits or productivity-often counts as one of the highest virtues in Western culture. But what does it...
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Winner, 2010 Edelstein Prize, Society for the History of TechnologyEfficiency-associated with individual discipline, superior management, and increased profits or productivity-often counts as one of the highest virtues in Western culture. But what does it mean, exactly, to be efficient? How did this concept evolve from a means for evaluating simple machines to the mantra of progress and a prerequisite for success?In this provocative and ambitious study, Jennifer Karns Alexander explores the growing power of efficiency in the post-industrial West. Examining the ways the concept has appeared in modern history-from a benign measure of the thermal economy of a machine to its widespread application to personal behaviors like chewing habits, spending choices, and shop floor movements to its controversial use as a measure of the business success of American slavery-she argues that beneath efficiency's seemingly endless variety lies a common theme: the pursuit of mastery through techniques of surveillance, discipline, and control. Six historical case studies-two from Britain, one each from France and Germany, and two from the United States-illustrate the concept's fascinating development and provide context for the meanings of, and uses for, efficiency today and in the future.
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- Autor: Jennifer Karns Alexander
- Englisch
- Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
- ISBN-10: 0801893305
- ISBN-13: 9780801893308
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