ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: 1968
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Charles R. Walker - Technology, Industry, and Man: The Age of Acceleration
McGraw-Hill, 1968
362 str.
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preface
MOST of us are both disturbed and exhilarated by such technological revolutions as nuclear energy, space travel, and automation. This book, like the first edition, is designed for all people who want to explore both the human problems and the promises of the machine age in which we live.
Each chapter theme has an introductory discussion by the author. The book is intended to provide the general reader with an overall view of the impact of the massive technological revolutions of recent years on the life and work of Man. For college classes the book is designed as a text for courses on modern technology and society. When so used, sections may be assigned and the theme of each supplemented by lectures and by collateral reading. Or this book may be used as a supplementary text or source book for courses in the history of technology or the history of science and also for certain courses in the social sciences. It may also be used to supplement other texts in the study of the individual firm and for courses in industrial sociology and industrial psychology.
For students in business and engineering schools it is suitable for a short or a long-orientation course designed to show, through detailed case material and discussion, the relation between the student`s future profession and the kind of society in which he will live. For such students the book provides material for both the analysis of practical problems and the discussion of larger social issues in the field of machine-man relationships.
Charles R. Walker

contents
Preface v
Acknowledgments
Bibliographical Note
Chapter 1
Prologue to an Age of Acceleration
Chapter 2
Perspectives: Time, Space, and History
Introduction
Bibliography
1. On Evaluating Technology in History, Charles Singer
2. Historical Origins of the Machine Age
Lewis Mumford
a. What Is a Machine?: Tools, Machines, and Utilities Defined, b. Ideological Preparation: The Wish before the Fact, Lewis Mumford c. Time and the Machine: Authority of the Clock, Lewis Mumford d. Monasteries and Mechanization, Bertrand Gille e. Leonardo da Vinci: `Compleat Technician,` Bertrand Gille
3. New Ideas of Space, Time, and Motion, Lewis Mumford
4. Technics and the Growth of Capitalism, Lewis Mumford
Chapter 3
Discovery of Man in the Factory
Introduction
1. What Is Monotony?, Elton Mayo
Chapter 4
The Machine Age of Mass Production: Principles and Practice
Introduction
Bibliography
1. Mass Production, Henry Ford
2. The Principles of Scientific Management, Frederick W. Taylor
3. Three Technologics: Size, Measurement, Hierarchy,
Daniel A. Bell
Note by the Author
4. Orthodox Incentive Theory, Principles, and Problems,
William F. Whyte
5. Incentives in Time of Change, Charles R. Walker
Chapter 5
Man-Machine Problems: Analyses and Solutions
Introduction
Bibliography
1. The Machine, the Worker, and the Engineer,
Robert K. Merton
2. Basic Human Problems in Mass-production Technologies: Pacing, Pressure, and Repetitiveness, Charles R. Walker
3. Influence of Mass-production Technology on Management, Arthur N. Turner
4. Solutions to the Money-motivation Problem
Introductory Note
a. `Enterprise for Everyman,` Russell W. Davenport
b. The Scanlon Plan through a Psychologist`s Eyes, Douglas McGregor
5. Increasing Satisfaction and Cutting Costs through Redesigning Machine-Man Relations, Eaton H. Conant and Maurice D. Kilbridge,
adapted by Charles R. Walker
6. A Cross-industrial Study of Technology and Work,
Charles R. Walker
Chapter 6
Enter Automation and the New Technologies
Introduction
Bibliography
1. Automation in the Factory, Floyd C. Mann and Richard
L. Hoffman
2. Automation in the Office, Floyd C. Mann and L. K. Williams
3. Automation in Continuous Process Industries,
Charles R. Walker
4. Computer-controlled Machines, Charles R. Walker
Chapter 7
The New Technologies and Management
Introduction
Bibliography
1. Automation and Technical Change: The Implications for the Management Process, Joan Woodward
2. Aerospace Systems and Human Problems, Aerospace Systems
3. Tailoring Management Organization to the New Technologies, Jay W. Lorsch and Paul R. Lawrence
Introductory Note
4 Coordination: A Key Problem in Manufacturing Complex
Products, Charles R. Walker
5. Bureaucracy and the Future of Industrial Organizations:
A Forecast, Warren G. Bennis
Note by the Author
Chapter 8
The New Technologies and Labor
Introduction
Bibliography
1. Making Strikes Obsolete, A. H. Raskin
2. Collective Bargaining and the Challenge of Technological
Change, Arnold R. Weber
3. Unions and the Managerial Process, Neil W. Chamberlain
Chapter 9
The New Technologies and Government
Introduction
Bibliography
1. Science, the New Technologies, and Government,
Don K. Price
2. Politics, Economics, and the New Technologies,
Barbara Ward
Chapter 10
The Knowledge Revolution and Industry
Introduction
Bibliography
1. The Computer in Organizations, Martin Greenberger
Introductory Note
2. Comsat and Satellites, Charles E. Silberman
Note by the Author
3. Impact of New Technologies on the Telephone Industry
Chapter 11
Epilogue: Tomorrow on the Spaceship Earth
Introduction
Bibliography
1. A Biologist Looks at Man`s Past and Future,
Julian Huxley
2. First Steps toward a Common World Culture,
Margaret Mead
Index of Contributors
Subject Index


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