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The book addresses basic issues in the history of labor and industry and makes an original contribution to the discussion of how technology and people interact.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. What Is a Hedonizing Technology?
2. Leisure and Necessity
3. Hedonization and Industrialization: Diverging Paths in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
4. The Hedonizing Marketplace
5. Why, When, and How Do Technologies Hedonize?
Appendixes
A. Biases of Collecting and Connoisseurship
B. Methodological Notes
Notes
Glossary
Index

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      Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
      Published 26 September 2009
      ISBN-13 9780801891465
      978-0801891465
      ISBN-10 0801891469
      Also in:
      Gender studies, gender groups Technology: general issues

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The book addresses basic issues in the history of labor and industry and makes an original contribution to the discussion of how technology and people interact.

      Table of Contents

      Acknowledgments
      Introduction
      1. What Is a Hedonizing Technology?
      2. Leisure and Necessity
      3. Hedonization and Industrialization: Diverging Paths in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
      4. The Hedonizing Marketplace
      5. Why, When, and How Do Technologies Hedonize?
      Appendixes
      A. Biases of Collecting and Connoisseurship
      B. Methodological Notes
      Notes
      Glossary
      Index

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