Productivity machines : German appropriations of American technologies from mass production to computer automation / Corinna Schlombs.

How productivity culture and technology became emblematic of the American economic system in pre- and postwar Germany. The concept of productivity originated in a statistical measure of output per worker or per work-hour, calculated by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. A broader productivity cultur...

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Main Author: Schlombs, Corinna (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : MIT Press, 2019.
Series:History of computing.
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