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

• Autore: Nolan Mary <1944->
• Pubblicazione: New York ; , : Oxford University Press, , 2023
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (337 p.)
• Disciplina: 338.943; 943.085
• 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
• 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
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: Oxford scholarship online.