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The rational factory : architecture, technology, and work in America's age of mass production

Title
The rational factory : architecture, technology, and work in America's age of mass production / Lindy Biggs.
Author
Biggs, Lindy.
Publication
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c1996.
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  • Contributor biographical information
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Description
xiii, 202 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Studies in industry and society ; 11
Uniform Title
Studies in industry and society ; 11.
Alternative Title
Architecture, technology, and work in America's age of mass production
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-192) and index.
Additional Formats (note)
  • Also issued online.
Contents
Rationalizing production in nineteenth-century America -- Industrial engineers and their "master machine" -- The human machine : engineers and factory welfare work -- Modernizing factories in the early twentieth century -- The Crystal Palace : the Ford Motor Company's Highland Park Plant, 1910-1914 -- The rational factory : Highland Park's new shop, 1914-1919 -- Ford's most ambitious machine : the River Rouge Plant, 1919-1935.
Call Number
JBE 10-2292
ISBN
  • 0801852617 (hc : alk. paper)
  • 9780801852619 (hc : alk. paper)
LCCN
96010947
OCLC
34320623
Author
Biggs, Lindy.
Title
The rational factory : architecture, technology, and work in America's age of mass production / Lindy Biggs.
Imprint
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c1996.
Series
Studies in industry and society ; 11
Studies in industry and society ; 11.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-192) and index.
Additional Formats
Also issued online.
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Contributor biographical information
Publisher description
Other Form:
Online version: Biggs, Lindy. Rational factory. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c1996 (OCoLC)605073185
Research Call Number
JBE 10-2292
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