Productivity machines German appropriations of American technology from mass production to computer automation - Schlombs, Corinna (Cambridge, Massachusetts The MIT Press, 2019)
Measuring productivity at the US Bureau of Labor Statistics -- Weimar rationalization appropriates American productivity -- The Marshall plan's productivity revolution -- US management and labor debate political and economic values of productivity -- German perceptions of US productivity -- Co-determining German labor relations -- IBM : an American corporation in Germany -- Computing technology : productivity promise or automation threat?
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Electronic reproduction.
Keywords: Production engineering -- Germany -- History; Technology transfer -- United States -- History; Industrial productivity -- Germany -- History; Technical assistance, American; Electronic books