| Description |
1 online resource (x, 217 pages) : illustrations |
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Inside Technology Ser |
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Inside Technology Ser
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| 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 |
| Summary |
In Building the Trident Network, Maggie Mort approaches the United Kingdom's Trident submarine and missile system as a sociotechnical network. Drawing on the sociology of scientific and technical knowledge and on actor-network theory, Mort recounts how the Trident program was stabilized in the United Kingdom and brought into "successful" production. She uncovers the nature of this success by retelling unofficial histories of Trident, of production roads not taken, and of potential technological "distractions." The production of Trident, she shows, was not inevitable but contingent and problematic. Using material from interviews and local texts, Mort explores the emergence of a counternetwork in the form of a workers' campaign for alternative technologies. She develops concepts of "disenrollment" and "absent intermediaries," in which redundant workers and marginalized technologies serve to discipline and reinforce the dominant network as production shrinks. She also examines the maintenance of the barrier between the technical and the social/political in this context. The management of uncertainties within the Trident production program emerges as critical to its successful completion |
| Analysis |
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/General |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-211) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
United States. Navy -- Procurement.
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Great Britain. Royal Navy -- Procurement
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| SUBJECT |
Great Britain. Royal Navy fast |
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United States. Navy fast |
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Trident (Weapons systems) -- Design and construction
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Military-industrial complex -- United States
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Military-industrial complex -- Great Britain
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- Service.
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Armed Forces -- Procurement
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Military-industrial complex
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Trident.
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Wapenproductie.
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Militair-industrieel complex.
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Great Britain
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Verenigde Staten.
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Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780262280235 |
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026228023X |
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0585436401 |
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9780585436401 |
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