03185nam 22008053u 450 99624793560331620230207223451.00-19-771769-10-19-987931-11-280-44103-80-19-802495-91-4237-3660-50-19-536143-11-60129-830-72027/heb00291(CKB)1000000000028624(EBL)241630(OCoLC)475957551(SSID)ssj0000085006(PQKBManifestationID)11125795(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000085006(PQKBWorkID)10009467(PQKB)11627239(MiAaPQ)EBC241630(MiAaPQ)EBC4702422(dli)HEB00291(MiU)MIU01000000000000003603024(OCoLC)1406781670(StDuBDS)9780197717691(EXLCZ)99100000000002862419940919e20231994 uy |engurmnummmmuuuutxtccrVisions of modernity American business and the modernization of Germany /Mary NolanNew York ;Oxford University Press,2023.1 online resource (337 p.)Oxford scholarship onlinePreviously issued in print: 1994.0-19-508875-1 0-19-507021-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents; Abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 2. Journeys to America; 3. The Infatuation with Fordism; 4. American Economic Success and German Emulation; 5. Work, Workers, and the Workplace in America; 6. The Cultural Consequences of Americanism; 7. The Paradoxes of Productivism; 8. Winners and Losers; 9. Engineering the New Worker; 10. Housework Made Easy; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliographic Essay; IndexExplores the impact of the USA on the German imagination in the critical interwar period of the 1920s, when the USA became Weimar Germany's model in a broad-based movement for economic reform and social modernization. The USA was seen as an intriguing vision for a new social order.Oxford scholarship online.Industrial managementGermanyHistory20th centuryIndustrial managementUnited StatesHistory20th centuryIndustrial relationsGermanyHistory20th centuryIndustrial relationsUnited StatesHistory20th centuryGermanyEconomic policy1918-1933GermanySocial policyUnited StatesEconomic policyTo 1933United StatesSocial policyIndustrial managementHistoryIndustrial managementHistoryIndustrial relationsHistoryIndustrial relationsHistory338.943943.085Nolan Mary1944-1590136UkUkStDuBDSZStDuBDSZBOOK996247935603316Visions of modernity4153136UNISA