Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-211) and index
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