During the nineteenth century, the US manufacturing sector shifted away from the "hand labor" mode of production, characteristic of artisan shops, to the "machine labor" of the factory. This was the focus of an extremely detailed but extraordinarily complex study by the Commissioner of Labor...

During the nineteenth century, the US manufacturing sector shifted away from the “hand labor” mode of production, characteristic of artisan shops, to the “machine labor” of the factory. This was the focus of an extremely detailed but extraordinarily complex study by the Commissioner of...

Ziel des Beitrages ist, anhand des Beispiels der Mikrofiltrationstechnologie die Genese von einer Hochtechnologie zu einer Alltagstechnologie über die im Markt erfolgreichen Artefakte und deren Rückwirkung auf die sie produzierenden Unternehmen nachzuzeichnen. Dabei handelt es sich um ein...