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| 1. |  | Title: Coordination without hierarchy: informal structures in multiorganizational systems  Author: Chisholm, Donald William Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Politics | Technology and Society Publisher's Description: The organizational history of American government during the past 100 years has been written principally in terms of the creation of larger and larger public organizations. Beginning with the Progressive movement, no matter the goal, the reflexive response has been to consolidate and centralize into . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 2. |  | Title: Thing knowledge: a philosophy of scientific instruments Author: Baird, Davis Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Philosophy | Technology and Society Publisher's Description: Western philosophers have traditionally concentrated on theory as the means for expressing knowledge about a variety of phenomena. This absorbing book challenges this fundamental notion by showing how objects themselves, specifically scientific instruments, can express knowledge. As he considers num . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 3. |  | Title: A shield in space?: technology, politics, and the strategic defense initiative: how the Reagan Administration set out to make nuclear weapons "impotent and obsolete" and succumbed to the fallacy of the last move Author: Lakoff, Sanford A Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Politics | Political Theory | Technology and Society Publisher's Description: In March 1983, Ronald Reagan made one of the most controversial announcements of his presidency when he called on the nation's scientists and engineers to develop a defensive shield so impenetrable as to make nuclear weapons "impotent and obsolete." This book provides the first comprehensive review . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 4. |  | Title: Spacefaring: the human dimension Author: Harrison, Albert A Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Science | Technology and Society | Psychology Publisher's Description: The stars have always called us, but only for the past forty years or so have we been able to respond by traveling in space. This book explores the human side of spaceflight: why people are willing to brave danger and hardship to go into space; how human culture has shaped past and present missions; . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 5. |  | Title: Strategies for learning: small-group activities in American, Japanese, and Swedish industry Author: Cole, Robert E Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Sociology | Technology and Society | Japan | Economics and Business Publisher's Description: How do firms become motivated to adopt small-group activities such as quality circles and self-managing teams? How do they acquire expertise in these activities? Noted sociologist and management expert Robert E. Cole addresses these issues through an examination of small-group activities in the Unit . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 6. |  | Title: What machines can't do: politics and technology in the industrial enterprise Author: Thomas, Robert Joseph 1952- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Economics and Business | Politics | Sociology | Technology and Society Publisher's Description: Virtually every manufacturing company has plans for an automated "factory of the future." But Robert J. Thomas argues that smart machines may not hold the key to an industrial renaissance. In this provocative and enlightening book, he takes us inside four successful manufacturing enterprises to reve . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 7. |  | Title: State capitalism and working-class radicalism in the French aircraft industry Author: Chapman, Herrick Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | European History | Politics | Technology and Society | French Studies Publisher's Description: In the 1950s and 1960s France experienced an economic miracle. As the state's role expanded with efforts to create a more modern economy, however, labor relations remained more volatile and workers more radical than elsewhere in western Europe. Herrick Chapman argues in this important new book that . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 8. |  | Title: A river and its city: the nature of landscape in New Orleans Author: Kelman, Ari 1968- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History | United States History | Environmental Studies | Technology and Society Publisher's Description: This engaging environmental history explores the rise, fall, and rebirth of one of the nation's most important urban public landscapes, and more significantly, the role public spaces play in shaping people's relationships with the natural world. Ari Kelman focuses on the battles fought over New Orle . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 9. |  | Title: Assembled in Japan: electrical goods and the making of the Japanese consumer Author: Partner, Simon Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: History | Japan | Media Studies | Technology and Society | Consumerism Publisher's Description: Assembled in Japan investigates one of the great success stories of the twentieth century: the rise of the Japanese electronics industry. Contrary to mainstream interpretation, Simon Partner discovers that behind the meteoric rise of Sony, Matsushita, Toshiba, and other electrical goods companies wa . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 10. |  | Title: Managing in the corporate interest: control and resistance in an American bank Author: Smith, Vicki 1951- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Sociology | Technology and Society | Economics and Business | Politics Similar Items |
| 11. |  | Title: Acceptable risk?: making decisions in a toxic environment Author: Clarke, Lee Ben Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Sociology | Technology and Society | Environmental Studies | Public Policy Publisher's Description: Organizations and modern technology give us much of what we value, but they have also given us Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and Bhopal. The question at the heart of this paradox is "What is acceptable risk?" Based on his examination of the 1981 contamination of an office building in Binghamton, New . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 12. |  | Title: Illness and culture in the postmodern age Author: Morris, David B Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Sociology | Philosophy | Medicine | Technology and Society | Anthropology | American Studies Publisher's Description: We become ill in ways our parents and grandparents did not, with diseases unheard of and treatments undreamed of by them. Illness has changed in the postmodern era - roughly the period since World War II - as dramatically as technology, transportation, and the texture of everyday life. Exploring the . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 13. |  | Title: Secure from rash assault: sustaining the Victorian environment Author: Winter, James H 1925- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: History | Victorian History | Ecology | Geography | Technology and Society Publisher's Description: Nineteenth-century Britain led the world in technological innovation and urbanization, and unprecedented population growth contributed as well to the "rash assault," to quote Wordsworth, on Victorian countrysides. Yet James Winter finds that the British environment was generally spared widespread ec . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 14. |  | Title: For love of the automobile: looking back into the history of our desires Author: Sachs, Wolfgang Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Science | European History | Technology and Society | German Studies Publisher's Description: In his cultural analysis of the motor car in Germany, Wolfgang Sachs starts from the assumption that the automobile is more than a means of transportation and that its history cannot be understood merely as a triumphant march of technological innovation. Instead, Sachs examines the history of the au . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 15. |  | Title: Technology as freedom: the New Deal and the electrical modernization of the American home Author: Tobey, Ronald C Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | American Studies | Technology and Society | United States History Publisher's Description: Before 1930, the domestic market for electrical appliances was segmented, but New Deal policies and programs created a true mass market, reshaping the electrical and housing markets and guiding them toward mandated social goals. The New Deal identified electrical refrigeration as a key technology to . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 16. |  | Title: No safe place: toxic waste, leukemia, and community action Author: Brown, Phil Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Sociology | American Studies | Ecology | Medicine | Technology and Society Publisher's Description: Toxic waste, contaminated water, cancer clusters - these phrases suggest deception and irresponsibility. But more significantly, they are watchwords for a growing struggle between communities, corporations, and government. In No Safe Place , sociologists, public policy professionals, and activists w . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 17. |  | Title: Between craft and class: skilled workers and factory politics in the United States and Britain, 1890-1922 Author: Haydu, Jeffrey Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Sociology | United States History | European History | Labor Studies | Technology and Society Publisher's Description: Between Craft and Class provides an incisive new look at workers' responses to the momentous economic changes surrounding them in the early years of the twentieth century. In this work, Haydu focuses on the reaction of skilled metal workers to new production methods that threatened time-honored craf . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 18. |  | Title: The Boundaries of humanity: humans, animals, machines Author: Sheehan, James J Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Philosophy | History and Philosophy of Science | Biology | Technology and Society Publisher's Description: To the age-old debate over what it means to be human, the relatively new fields of sociobiology and artificial intelligence bring new, if not necessarily compatible, insights. What have these two fields in common? Have they affected the way we define humanity? These and other timely questions are ad . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 19. |  | Title: Three Mile Island: a nuclear crisis in historical perspective Author: Walker, J. Samuel Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: History | Technology and Instruments | Environment | Technology and Society | United States History Publisher's Description: Twenty-five years ago, Hollywood released The China Syndrome, featuring Jane Fonda and Michael Douglas as a TVnews crew who witness what appears to be a serious accident at a nuclear power plant. In a spectacular coincidence, on March 28, 1979, less than two weeks after the movie came out, the worst . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 20. |  | Title: High-Tech Europe: the politics of international cooperation Author: Sandholtz, Wayne Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Politics | Public Policy | Economics and Business | Technology and Society Publisher's Description: A study of cooperative efforts in the high-tech industries of Europe. Sandholtz examines why collaboration came late to these countries, how protective walls came down, how countries work together in economically sensitive areas.Governments have recognized for decades the dynamic role played by micr . . . [more] Similar Items |