@article{1386461,
      recid = {1386461},
      author = {Mort, Maggie.},
      title = {Building the Trident network : a study of the enrollment  of people, knowledge, and machines /},
      publisher = {MIT Press,},
      address = {Cambridge, Mass. :},
      pages = {1 online resource (x, 217 pages) :},
      year = {2002},
      abstract = {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.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1386461},
}