America by Design
Science, Technology, and the Rise of Corporate Capitalism
Published on 23. January 2013
384 pages
978-0-307-82849-1 (ISBN)
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Hailed a "significant contribution" by The New York Times, David Noble's book America by Design describes the factors that have shaped the history of scientific technology in the United States. Since the beginning, technology and industry have been undeniably intertwined, and Noble demonstrates how corporate capitalism has not only become the driving force behind the development of technology in this country but also how scientific research-particularly within universities-has been dominated by the corporations who fund it, who go so far as to influence the education of the engineers that will one day create the technology to be used for capitalist gain. Noble reveals that technology, often thought to be an independent science, has always been a means to an end for the men pulling the strings of Corporate America-and it was these men that laid down the plans for the design of the modern nation today.
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David F. Noble
America by Design
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05/1977
Alfred A. Knopf
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DAVID F. NOBLE was Professor of History at York University in Toronto. He also taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Drexel University, and was a curator of modern technology at the Smithsonian Institution. His previous books include America by Design: Science, Technology, and the Rise of Corporate Capitalism and Forces of Production: A Social History of Industrial Automation. He died in 2010.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Foreword by Christopher Lasch
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part One - Technology as Social Production / Industry, Education, and Engineers
- 1. The Wedding of Science to the Useful Arts-I / The Rise of Science-Based Industry
- 2. The Wedding of Science to the Useful Arts-II / The Development of Technical Education
- 3. The Wedding of Science to the Useful Arts-III / The Emergence of the Professional Engineer
- 4. Preservation Through Change / Corporate Engineers and Social Reform
- Part Two - Corporate Reform as Conscious Social Production
- 5. Laying the Foundation / Scientific and Industrial Standardization
- 6. The Corporation as Inventor / Patent-Law Reform and Patent Monopoly
- 7. Science for Industry / The Organization of Industrial and University Research
- 8. Technology as People / The Industrial Process of Higher Education-I
- 9. Technology as People / The Industrial Process of Higher Education-II
- 10. A Technology of Social Production / Modern Management and the Expansion of Engineering
- Epilogue
- Notes
- A Note About the Author
