Visions of Modernity
American Business and the Modernization of Germany
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 22 September 1994
- ISBN 9780195088755
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages336 pages
- Size 233x156x22 mm
- Weight 489 g
- Language English
- Illustrations tables 0
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Short description:
Nolan's book explores the impact of America on the German imagination in the critical interwar period of the 1920s, when the USA became Weimar Germany's model in a broad-based movement for economic reform and social modernization. The USA was seen as an intriguing vision for a revitalized economy and a new social order.
MoreLong description:
In much the same way that Japan has become the focus of contemporary American discussion about industrial restructuring, Germans in the 1920s debated economic reform in terms of Americanism and Fordism, seeing in the United States an intriguing vision for a revitalized economy and a new social order.
During the 1920s, Germans were fascinated by American economic success and its quintessential symbols, Henry Ford and his automobile factories. Mary Nolan's book explores the contradictory ways in which trade unionists and industrialists, engineers and politicians, educators and social workers explained American economic success, envisioned a more efficient or "rationalized" economic system for Germany, and anguished over the social and cultural costs of adopting the American version of modernity. These debates about Americanism and Fordism deeply shaped German perceptions of what was economically and socially possible and desirable in terms of technology and work, family and gender relations, consumption and culture. Nolan examines efforts to transform production and consumption, factories and homes, and argues that economic Americanism was implemented ambivalently and incompletely, producing, in the end, neither prosperity nor political stability.
Vision of Modernity will appeal not only to scholars of German History and those interested in European social and working-class history, but also to industrial sociologists and business scholars.
stimulating and wide-ranging new study...the real interest in Nolan's study lies less in her discussion of production itself than in the issue of social engineering and the creation of the 'rational family
