The Rational Factory: Architecture, Technology and Work in America's Age of Mass Production

by Lindy Biggs and Professor Lindy Biggs

Book Overview

Searching for a "rational" workplace, turn-of-the-century engineers and industrial architects recast the factory itself in the image of the machine. Indeed, they considered the factory building the "master machine," containing and coordinating all of the machinery within. Such rational factory planning improved production speed and the management of workers. Once created, the rational factory transformed the nature of work, both human and mechanical...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801852617
• ISBN13: 9780801852619
• Release Date: September 1996
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"