Visions Of Modernity American Business And The Modernization Of Germany

Download or read book Visions of Modernity written by Mary Nolan and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1994 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Nolan's Visions of Modernity explores the contradictory ways in which German trade unionists and industrialists, engineers and politicians, educators and social workers explained American economic success, envisioned a more efficient or "rationalized" economic system for Germany, and anguished over the social and cultural costs of adopting the American version of modernity.