The Myth of the Machine: The pentagon of powerHarcourt, Brace & World, 1970 - Technology and civilization |
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Page 149
... production , with its specialization and fixation of human effort before the machine itself was sufficiently organized to take over the whole job . Standardization , prefabrication , and mass production were all first established in ...
... production , with its specialization and fixation of human effort before the machine itself was sufficiently organized to take over the whole job . Standardization , prefabrication , and mass production were all first established in ...
Page 151
... production but of ideal consumption under the machine system : rapid standardized production for equally rapid standardized consumption - with built - in waste and destruction as a means of averting financial bankruptcy through ...
... production but of ideal consumption under the machine system : rapid standardized production for equally rapid standardized consumption - with built - in waste and destruction as a means of averting financial bankruptcy through ...
Page 169
... production as they passed from one industry to another , from printing to arms production to textiles , are beyond dispute . And if the archetypal model for the new system of thought was the clock , that for standardized mass production ...
... production as they passed from one industry to another , from printing to arms production to textiles , are beyond dispute . And if the archetypal model for the new system of thought was the clock , that for standardized mass production ...
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THE STORY OF UTOPIAS 1922 | 7 |
THE GOLDEN DAY 1926 | 46 |
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