Les Deux Révolutions industrielles du XXe siècle

Les Deux Révolutions industrielles du XXe siècle
Author: François Caron
Publisher: Albin Michel
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2014-04-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 2226295887

Depuis le XVIIIe siècle, l'Occident vit au rythme des avancées technologiques : mécanisation, industrialisation et révolution informatique. Mais c'est à partir des années 1950 que ces progrès techniques finirent vraiment par engendrer une nouvelle société, celle de la consommation de masse. Pour comprendre cet extraordinaire essor des niveaux de vie, François Caron a non seulement mobilisé les instruments fournis par l'histoire des techniques et par l'économie de l'innovation, mais aussi replacé ces révolutions industrielles dans leurs contextes tout en analysant les relations d'interdépendance entre l'innovation et la demande sociale, entre l'innovation et la recherche institutionnalisée. François Caron dresse un portrait saisissant du siècle qui s'achève sur une recomposition à peu près totale des logiques économiques et sociales, provoquant une situation de crise par laquelle, une nouvelle fois, se repose la question de la finalité de la science et de la technologie.

The Second Twentieth Century

The Second Twentieth Century
Author: Jean-Jacques Rosa
Publisher: Hoover Institution Press
Total Pages: 408
Release: 2013-09-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0817947434

Jean-Jacques Rosa offers an analysis of the "grand cycle" in social organization of the twentieth century, showing how the transformation in communication and information technology has led to the downfall of the old political and corporate hierarchies. He explains how today's explosion of freely available information is fueling the democratic free-market revolution and reveals its universal contemporary consequences.

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Publisher: Editions Bréal
Total Pages: 129
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ISBN: 2749524660

Dynamics of Innovation

Dynamics of Innovation
Author: François Caron
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2015-11
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1785330365

Best known as the leading historian of French railways, François Caron has also done significant work on topics as varied as electricity, water and steam power, the theory of innovation, the structure of enterprise, and other aspects of economic development in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In this volume, he brings together these different facets of his expertise in order to present a broad panorama of modern technology. Caron shows how artisanal know-how was adapted, expanded, and formalized during the three industrial revolutions that swept over Great Britain, France, Germany, and the United States in a comprehensive analysis of this long, complex, and continuous historical process, leading up to the twenty-first century. Thus, he illustrates the increasingly fruitful interaction between technological and scientific knowledge in modern times.

Les deux révolutions industrielles du XXe siècle

Les deux révolutions industrielles du XXe siècle
Author: François Caron
Publisher:
Total Pages: 591
Release: 1998
Genre:
ISBN: 9782266086059

Depuis le XVIIIe siècle, l'Occident vit au rythme des avancées technologiques : mécanisation, industrialisation et révolution informatique. Mais c'est à partir des années 1950 que ces progrès techniques finirent vraiment par engendrer une nouvelle société, celle de la consommation de masse. Pour comprendre cet extraordinaire essor des niveaux de vie, François Caron a non seulement mobilisé les instruments fournis par l'histoire des techniques et par l'économie de l'innovation, mais aussi replacé ces révolutions industrielles dans leurs contextes tout en analysant les relations d'interdépendance entre l'innovation et la demande sociale, entre l'innovation et la recherche institutionnalisée. François Caron dresse un portrait saisissant du siècle qui s'achève sur une recomposition à peu près totale des logiques économiques et sociales, provoquant une situation de crise par laquelle, une nouvelle fois, se repose la question de la finalité de la science et de la technologie.

Our Modern Times

Our Modern Times
Author: Daniel Cohen
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2004-02-27
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780262532631

How information technology has replaced the work culture of paternalism and standardization with one of isolation and insecurity.

The Formation of the Swiss Hospital System (1840–1960)

The Formation of the Swiss Hospital System (1840–1960)
Author: Pierre-Yves Donzé
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 231
Release: 2022-08-18
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 981193911X

This book offers an analysis of the formation of contemporary hospital systems between the mid-19th century and the mid-20th century. Based on extensive archival material and a broad international literature review, it focuses on the case of the canton of Vaud, Switzerland, and uses a triple approach that discusses technological innovations, hospital management, and health policy. This research is a major contribution to the history of medicine which gives a unique overview of the formation of contemporary hospital systems.

Three Lectures on Post-industrial Society

Three Lectures on Post-industrial Society
Author: Daniel Cohen
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 119
Release: 2009
Genre: Europe
ISBN: 0262033836

Employees are left exposed, and shareholders act to protect themselves, Never has the awareness that we all live in the same world been so strong-and never have the social conditions of existence been so unequal."

Capitals of Capital

Capitals of Capital
Author: Youssef Cassis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 409
Release: 2010-03-18
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0521144043

`...useful reading for anyone interested in the antecedents of today's vibrant international financial markets.' --

Prophets of Computing

Prophets of Computing
Author: Dick van Lente
Publisher: Morgan & Claypool
Total Pages: 556
Release: 2022-12-14
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1450398189

When electronic digital computers first appeared after World War II, they appeared as a revolutionary force. Business management, the world of work, administrative life, the nation state, and soon enough everyday life were expected to change dramatically with these machines’ use. Ever since, diverse prophecies of computing have continually emerged, through to the present day. As computing spread beyond the US and UK, such prophecies emerged from strikingly different economic, political, and cultural conditions. This volume explores how these expectations differed, assesses unexpected commonalities, and suggests ways to understand the divergences and convergences. This book examines thirteen countries, based on source material in ten different languages—the effort of an international team of scholars. In addition to analyses of debates, political changes, and popular speculations, we also show a wide range of pictorial representations of "the future with computers."