Abstract of chapter 6 With this 5th chapter, we move from an intimate, ordinary, at shoulders’ height description to a more general, macro and institutional account of the industrial mobilization and its relationship with digital management. The story of the first and second US industrial mobilization is summarized. The chapter details how it start...
This introduction details the context and project of this book. Focused on the American industrial mobilization during World War II and its relationship with the renewal of management, The rise of digital management aims to describe how management as a set of practices and processes was renewed by the impetus of the war and its aftermath. In essenc...
This chapter continues the historical exploration of the US industrial mobilization and its relationships with the rise of digital management with a more specific focus on New York. Several archives are used to embody the trends at stake in the macro-history of the mobilization. The industrial history (with a focus on the Brooklyn Navy Yard) and th...
This book analyzes the history of management, placing it in perspective with both American history and the genealogy of digital technology. Focusing on the years of industrial mobilization in the United States (from 1937 to 1945) and their extension into the Cold War, it shows in particular how “scientific management” was reconfigured and relegitim...
This book analyzes the history of management, placing it in perspective with both American history and the genealogy of digital technology. Focusing on the years of industrial mobilization in the United States (from 1937 to 1945) and their extension into the Cold War, it shows in particular how “scientific management” was reconfigured and relegitim...
Avant le déclenchement des affrontements armés, l'Artillerie est équipée en cohérence avec une doctrine inadaptée au regard des conflits récents et des possibilités techniques. Lorsque la guerre courte imaginée se mue en une guerre longue offrant la possibilité d'adapter les armements et nécessitant des consommations massives de projectiles, la gou...
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