The Cost of Inventiveness
Labor's Struggle with Management's Machine
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4025447 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Daryl M Hafter (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 102-113 |
| Publication date | 2003-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Technology and Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0040-165X • E-ISSN: 1097-3729 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/tech.2003.0017 |
| OpenAlex | W1988385336 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 8 |
Historians of technology have spent much fruitful time and effort defining technology and explaining how crucial inventions came to be made. This was a useful exercise when our field was carving out a niche for itself amid other evolving branches of historical inquiry. Less statistically focused than economic history, we insisted on evidence of specific technologies to test theoretical paradigms. More oriented to inventions and their diffusion than labor history, we concentrated less on the dynamics of labor disputes than the tools of manufacture. Borrowing from business history, we paid more attention to the productive elements than techniques of sales and diffusion. Throughout our analysis of the past, our eye was always on the means by which humans transformed the environment, how society gained control of physical realities, and what these efforts achieved or lost
Art · Economics · Labour economics · Operations management · Chinese history and philosophy · Computer Science
| Citations per year | 0.15 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2013 - 2018 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |