Lindy Biggs
Biographic Data
| ID | 1052431 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lindy Biggs |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lindy |
| FAMILY NAME | Biggs |
| SIGNATURE | BIGGS L |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Taylorized Beauty of the Mechanical
Reviewed by: The Taylorized Beauty of the Mechanical: Scientific Management and the Rise of Modernist Architecture Lindy Biggs (bio) The Taylorized Beauty of the Mechanical: Scientific Management and the Rise of Modernist Architecture. By Mauro F. Guillén . Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2006. Pp. xii+186. $29.95. Modern architecture has intrigued many historians, quite a few engineers, and now a sociologist of institutions, Mauro G…
Making Sense of the Industrial Revolution
For anyone who has ever felt overwhelmed by the volume of writing on the British industrial revolution and avoided the econometric debates over whether or not the revolution was revolutionary, Making Sense of the Industrial Revolution has help to offer. The authors deliver on the promise they make in their title and shine some bright light on an often overly dense literature
Technological Revolutions in Europe
World of Possibilities
The eleven essays contained in World of Possibilities are the outcome of an international seminar on "Historic Alternatives to Mass Production." They range widely in period (eighteenth century to late twentieth century) and in geographic scope (United States, Scandinavia, Switzerland, Italy, France, England, and Germany). Its scope is one of the great strengths of the volume; these essays enable the English-only reader to look at detailed cases […
The Rational Factory
Journal Article The Rational Factory: Architecture, Technology, and Work in America's Age of Mass Production. By Lindy Biggs. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. xiv, 202 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8018-5261-7.) Get access William G. Roy William G. Roy University of California Los Angeles, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 4, March 1998, Pages 15…
Building the Workingman's Paradise
988 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE contributors to Under the Stars relied heavily on interviews with indus try leaders and workers. Yet these thirty-seven interviews, conducted between 1989 and 1991, are simply listed in the bibliography, with no further guidance for the reader. I would hope the editors make them available. I suggest they do so via the Internet. Douglas Gomery Dr. Gomery is professor in the College ofJournalism at Universit…
Building the Workingman's Paradise
Taylored Lives
846 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE this day January 1,1857] is dedicated to my children and is devoted to their gratification and instruction” (p. 3). By aiming high he has flown well over the head of this reader, since I was looking less for moral instruction than for grubby technological details. Gorgas of fers almost no description of his wartimejob, his later work, or his military or civilian associates. He has far more to say about egg…
Taylored Lives
The Engineered Factory
Lindy Biggs, The Engineered Factory, Technology and Culture, Vol. 36, No. 2, Supplement: Snapshots of a Discipline: Selected Proceedings from the Conference on Critical Problems and Research Frontiers in the History of Technology, Madison, Wisconsin, October 30-November 3, 1991 (Apr., 1995), pp. S174-S188
A Mental Revolution
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 427 A Mental Revolution: Scientific Management since Taylor. Edited by Daniel Nelson. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1992. Pp. viii+249; notes, index. $49.50. Daniel Nelson, one of the foremost scholars of scientific manage ment, has gathered together a set of important papers in A Mental Revolution: Scientific Management since Taylor. These essays treat scientific management from F. W. Taylor’s death …
A Mental Revolution
(print) viii, 249 p. ; 24 cm
A Promising Field
America and the Automobile
America and the Automobile
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 627 America and the Automobile: Technology, Reform and Social Change, 1893— 1923. By Peter J. Ling. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1990; distributed by St. Martin’s Press, New York. Pp. vi + 202; notes, bibliography, index. $59.95. At first glance, America and the Automobile appears to be a skillful synthesis of almost everything that has been written on the social history of the automobile. But on cl…
A Concrete Atlantis
316 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE ative publicity, improve their public image, eliminate ‘unfair’ com petition, and in general, increase sales” (p. 289). Like so many other “reformers,” they turned to the government to ensure “fair play in the marketplace.” Ronald L. Numbers Dr. Numbers is professor of the history of medicine and the history of science at the University of Wisconsin—Madison. His publications include Sickness and Health in …
A Concrete Atlantis
Let us listen to the counsels of American engineers. But let us beware of American architects! declared Le Corbusier, who like other European architects of his time believed that he saw in the work of American industrial builders a model of the way architecture should develop. It was a vision of an ideal world, a made up of daylight factories and grain elevators.In a book that suggests how good Modern was before it went wrong, Reyner Banham detai…
The Engineered Factory
Lindy Biggs, The Engineered Factory, Technology and Culture, Vol. 36, No. 2, Supplement: Snapshots of a Discipline: Selected Proceedings from the Conference on Critical Problems and Research Frontiers in the History of Technology, Madison, Wisconsin, October 30-November 3, 1991 (Apr., 1995), pp. S174-S188
A Concrete Atlantis
316 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE ative publicity, improve their public image, eliminate ‘unfair’ com petition, and in general, increase sales” (p. 289). Like so many other “reformers,” they turned to the government to ensure “fair play in the marketplace.” Ronald L. Numbers Dr. Numbers is professor of the history of medicine and the history of science at the University of Wisconsin—Madison. His publications include Sickness and Health in …
A Concrete Atlantis
Let us listen to the counsels of American engineers. But let us beware of American architects! declared Le Corbusier, who like other European architects of his time believed that he saw in the work of American industrial builders a model of the way architecture should develop. It was a vision of an ideal world, a made up of daylight factories and grain elevators.In a book that suggests how good Modern was before it went wrong, Reyner Banham detai…
America and the Automobile
America and the Automobile
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 627 America and the Automobile: Technology, Reform and Social Change, 1893— 1923. By Peter J. Ling. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1990; distributed by St. Martin’s Press, New York. Pp. vi + 202; notes, bibliography, index. $59.95. At first glance, America and the Automobile appears to be a skillful synthesis of almost everything that has been written on the social history of the automobile. But on cl…
A Promising Field
A Mental Revolution
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 427 A Mental Revolution: Scientific Management since Taylor. Edited by Daniel Nelson. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1992. Pp. viii+249; notes, index. $49.50. Daniel Nelson, one of the foremost scholars of scientific manage ment, has gathered together a set of important papers in A Mental Revolution: Scientific Management since Taylor. These essays treat scientific management from F. W. Taylor’s death …
A Mental Revolution
(print) viii, 249 p. ; 24 cm
The Engineered Factory
Lindy Biggs, The Engineered Factory, Technology and Culture, Vol. 36, No. 2, Supplement: Snapshots of a Discipline: Selected Proceedings from the Conference on Critical Problems and Research Frontiers in the History of Technology, Madison, Wisconsin, October 30-November 3, 1991 (Apr., 1995), pp. S174-S188
Taylored Lives
846 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE this day January 1,1857] is dedicated to my children and is devoted to their gratification and instruction” (p. 3). By aiming high he has flown well over the head of this reader, since I was looking less for moral instruction than for grubby technological details. Gorgas of fers almost no description of his wartimejob, his later work, or his military or civilian associates. He has far more to say about egg…
Taylored Lives
Building the Workingman's Paradise
988 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE contributors to Under the Stars relied heavily on interviews with indus try leaders and workers. Yet these thirty-seven interviews, conducted between 1989 and 1991, are simply listed in the bibliography, with no further guidance for the reader. I would hope the editors make them available. I suggest they do so via the Internet. Douglas Gomery Dr. Gomery is professor in the College ofJournalism at Universit…
Building the Workingman's Paradise
The Rational Factory
Journal Article The Rational Factory: Architecture, Technology, and Work in America's Age of Mass Production. By Lindy Biggs. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. xiv, 202 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8018-5261-7.) Get access William G. Roy William G. Roy University of California Los Angeles, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 4, March 1998, Pages 15…
World of Possibilities
The eleven essays contained in World of Possibilities are the outcome of an international seminar on "Historic Alternatives to Mass Production." They range widely in period (eighteenth century to late twentieth century) and in geographic scope (United States, Scandinavia, Switzerland, Italy, France, England, and Germany). Its scope is one of the great strengths of the volume; these essays enable the English-only reader to look at detailed cases […
Technological Revolutions in Europe
Making Sense of the Industrial Revolution
For anyone who has ever felt overwhelmed by the volume of writing on the British industrial revolution and avoided the econometric debates over whether or not the revolution was revolutionary, Making Sense of the Industrial Revolution has help to offer. The authors deliver on the promise they make in their title and shine some bright light on an often overly dense literature
The Taylorized Beauty of the Mechanical
Reviewed by: The Taylorized Beauty of the Mechanical: Scientific Management and the Rise of Modernist Architecture Lindy Biggs (bio) The Taylorized Beauty of the Mechanical: Scientific Management and the Rise of Modernist Architecture. By Mauro F. Guillén . Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2006. Pp. xii+186. $29.95. Modern architecture has intrigued many historians, quite a few engineers, and now a sociologist of institutions, Mauro G…
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