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Productivity Machines: German Appropriations of American Technology from Mass Production to Computer Automation

By Corinna Schlombs
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By Corinna Schlombs
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How productivity culture and technology became emblematic of the American economic system in pre- and postwar Germany.

The concept of productivity originated in a statistical measure of output per worker or per work-hour, calculated by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. A broader productivity culture emerged in 1920s America, as Henry Ford and others linked methods of mass production and consumption to high wages and low prices. These ideas were studied eagerly by a Germany in search of econ...

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