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Visions of modernity : American business and the modernization of Germany / / Mary Nolan



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Autore: Nolan Mary <1944-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Visions of modernity : American business and the modernization of Germany / / Mary Nolan Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York ; , : Oxford University Press, , 2023
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (337 p.)
Disciplina: 338.943
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Soggetto topico: Industrial management - Germany - History - 20th century
Industrial management - United States - History - 20th century
Industrial relations - Germany - History - 20th century
Industrial relations - United States - History - 20th century
Soggetto geografico: Germany Economic policy 1918-1933
Germany Social policy
United States Economic policy To 1933
United States Social policy
Note generali: Previously issued in print: 1994.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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; Index
Sommario/riassunto: Explores 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Visions of modernity  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-19-771769-1
0-19-987931-1
1-280-44103-8
0-19-802495-9
1-4237-3660-5
0-19-536143-1
1-60129-830-7
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 996247935603316
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Serie: Oxford scholarship online.