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.