Forces of Production: A Social History of Industrial Automation is a 1984 book by David Noble.
Summary
Chapter One The Setting: The War Abroad
Chapter Two The Setting: The War at Home
Chapter Three Power and the Power of Ideas
Chapter Four Toward the Automatic Factory
Chapter Five By the Numbers I
Chapter Six By the Numbers II
Chapter Seven The Road Not Taken
Chapter Eight Development: A Free Lunch
Chapter Nine Diffusion: A Glimpse of Reality
Chapter Ten Deployment: Power in Numbers
Chapter Eleven Who's Running the Shop?
Epilogue Another Look at Progress
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