Includes bibliographical references (pages 308-322) and index.
(Continued) The industrial revolution in the home / Ruth Schwartz Cowan -- How the refrigerator got its hum / Ruth Schwartz Cowan -- A woman's place: Dolores Hayden on the 'grand domestic revolution' / Moyra Doorly -- De Gribeauval and the origins of planned invention for war / William H. McNeill -- The American Army and the M-16 rifle / James Fallows -- The Thor-Jupiter controversy / Michael H. Armacost -- The armament process / Mary Kaldor -- Military technology in the Soviet Union / Mary Kaldor -- Preparing to fight a nuclear war / Alan Roberts.
Do artifacts have politics? / Langdon Winner -- Edison and electric light / Thomas P. Hughes -- Gender and technological change / Ruth Schwartz Cowan -- Caught in the wheels: the high cost of being a female cog in the male machinery of engineering / Cynthia Cockburn -- The watermill and feudal authority / Marc Bloch -- The machine versus the worker / Karl Marx -- Technology and capitalist control / Harry Braverman -- Industrial conflict as a source of technical innovation: the development of the automatic spinning mule / Tine Bruland -- The self-acting mule and social relations in the workplace / William Lazonick -- Social choice in machine design: the case of automatically controlled machine tools / David F. Noble -- The material of male power / Cynthia Cockburn -- Word processing and the transformation of patriarchal relations of control in the office / Jane Barker and Hazel Downing -- Drawing up the corporate plan at Lucas Aerospace / Mike Cooley.