Building the Trident network a study of the enrollment of people, knowledge, and machines / Maggie Mort.

Author/creator Mort, Maggie
Format Electronic
Publication InfoCambridge, Mass. : MIT Press,
Descriptionx, 217 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Subjects
United States. Navy--Procurement.
Great Britain. Royal Navy--Procurement.
Trident (Weapons systems)--Design and construction.
Military-industrial complex--United States.
Military-industrial complex--Great Britain.

Contents Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgments ix -- Introduction 1 -- I -- Simplifying Production -- 1 -- Large-Scale Technologies: Ambivalence and Coercion 17 -- 2 -- From Diversity to "Core Business" 33 -- H -- Reinforcing the Network -- 3 -- Technological Roads Not Taken: The Constant Speed Generator Drive 53 -- 4 -- Constructing a Core Workforce 79 -- HI -- Alternatives -- Winning the "Technical Arguments" 111 -- 6 -- Building a Counter-Network 129 -- Iv -- Closures -- 7 -- Human Redundancy: An Exercise in Disenrollment 161 -- 8 -- Softening the Facts 175 -- Appendix Employment Data from Lazard Brothers Sale Documents, as -- Reproduced in Oceans of Work 185 -- Notes 187 -- Bibliography 205 -- Index 213.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [205]-211) and index.
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Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2001034275
ISBN0262133970 (hc. : alk. paper)