Forces of production
by David Franklin Noble · first published 1984
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This article reads a lot like one of the best frustrating books I have read: David F. Noble's Forces of Production: A Social History of Industrial Automation. Noble's book is about the introduction of computer numerically controlled machine tools in American manufacturing after WW II, covering the technology but focusing…
on “The automation charade” ↗…leverage the existing knowledge and population of manual lathe operators and there's no relation to computer programmers and instead the "touch stone" is ordinary lath operation There is a fascinating book "Forces of Production" [0] that analyzes the history of the development of numerical control in the 1960s that argues exactly the opposite. I read it many years ago, but I will try to summarize it TLDR style below: Before…
on “Tesla's Simultaneous Brilliance and Incompetence Revealed in Teardown of Model 3” ↗…production or revenue are down because people who didnt go to $college are inherently lazier than he is. That is literally exactly what happens, and how too many people in management think. David Noble's Forces of Production is about machine tool shops in the 1960s and 1970s, and is full of accounts just like yours (with details right down to management accusing workers of sabotage), with sources from both the worker and…
on “Employers are monitoring computers, toilet breaks, even emotions” ↗“America By Design” and “Forces of Production” by the historian David Noble[1] discuss the relationship between capitalism, management, and the development of technology. From Wikipedia, > “America by Design”…was published to unusually prominent…
on “Ask HN: Good Books on the History of Technology?” ↗You may be interested in David Noble's work on this, see "Forces of Production: A Social History of Industrial Automation". People do indeed slur the luddites, and I have to say, emotionally they are very sympathetic. At the same time, they slur the industrialists, who are also…
on “Mathematicians Need to Act” ↗