Productivity Machines
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 culture emerged in 1920s America, as Henry Ford and others linked methods of mass production and consumptio...
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 culture emerged in 1920s America, as Henry Ford and others linked methods of mass production and consumptio...
