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Week VIII (13 November)
- Lecture 15. Ford and the $5 Day
- Lecture 16. Taylorism and Fordism: Contrasts and
Connections
- Reading
- Stephen Meyer III, The Five Dollar Day: Labor
Management and Social
Control in the Ford Motor Company, 1908-1921, pp. 123-202 [packet]
- Lindy Biggs, "The Engineered Factory", Technology and Culture 36,2 (1995),
Supplement, S174-S188 [JSTOR]
[E-reserves]
- Michael S. Mahoney,
'Engineering Plus': Technical Education and the Liberal Arts at
Princeton
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Week IX (22 November)
- Lecture 17. Mass Distribution: The Consumer Society
- Lecture 18. The System Builders
- Reading:
- Cowan, Chap. 12.
- Robert
S. and Helen
M. Lynd, Middletown, Chaps. 4-8, 13-14, 17-19, 27-29
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Week X (29 November)
- Lecture 19. From the Difference Engine to ENIAC
- Lecture 20. From Boole to EDVAC
- Reading
- Campbell-Kelly and Aspray, Chaps. 1-6
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Week XI (4 December)
- Lecture 21. In our Own Image: Creating the Computer, 1945-95
- Lecture 22. The Software Paradox
- Reading
- Campbell-Kelly and Aspray, Chaps. 7-9
- Thomas Haigh, "The Chromium-Plated Tabulator:
Institutionalizing an Electronic Revolution, 1954-1958", IEEE Annals
of the History of Computing 23,4(2001), 75-104 [PDF
(PU only)] [E-reserves]
- Michael S. Mahoney,
"Finding a History for Software Engineering",
Annals of the History of Computing
26,1(2004), 8-19 [PDF
(PU only)]
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| Background
and Supplementary Reading |
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Week XII (11 December)
- Lecture 23. Working Toward Choices
- Lecture 24. Where Are We Now?
- Reading
- Campbell-Kelly and Aspray, Chaps. 10-12
- Michael S. Mahoney, "Boys'
Toys and Women's Work: Feminism Engages Software", in Angela N.H.
Creager,
et al. (eds.), Feminism in Twentieth Century Science, Technology
and
Medicine (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001), Chap. 9 [E-reserves]
- Langdon Winner, "Do Artifacts Have Politics?" Daedalus(Winter,
1980),
121-136 (online)
[E-reserves]
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and Supplementary Reading |
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Reading Period
- Reading
- Lessig (entire)
Background
and Supplementary Reading |