Would Trotsky wear a Bluetooth? technological utopianism under socialism, 1917-1989

Josephson's intriguing study of how technology both helped and hindered this effort asks new and important questions about the crucial issues inextricably linked with the development and diffusion of technology in any sociopolitical system.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Josephson, Paul R. (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press c2010.
Edición:1st ed
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009423014706719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : tractors, steel mills, concrete, and other joys of socialism
  • Would Trotsky wear a Bluetooth? Technological utopianism in the Soviet Union in the 1920s
  • Proletarian aesthetics : technology and socialism in Eastern Europe
  • From kimchi to concrete : the North Korean experiment
  • Floating reactors : nuclear hubris after the fall of communism
  • Industrial deserts : technology and environmental degradation under socialism
  • No hard hats, no steel-toed shoes required : worker safety in the proletarian paradise
  • The gendered tractor.