Browse Items (9 total)

'A Place for Hype', London Review of Books

Tags: 2000s; 2007; 2007-10-5; Alvin Toffler; B-52 bombers; David Edgerton; flat-pack bookcases; Future; History of Science; Horses; Hype; Kalashnikovs; Robert Hughes; Social change; STS; Tenner, Edward

'My countryside, then and now', Harpers

Tags: 1990s; 1999; 1999-8-1; Country life; Cowley, Malcolm; Malcolm Cowley; Pennsylvania; Rural conditions; Rural-urban migration; Social change; Social sciences; Sociology; United States

'The future is not inevitable', Harpers

Tags: 1960s; 1967; 1967-10-1; Conflict of generations; New Left; Other; Potter, Paul; Radicalism; Social change; social movements; United States

'An open letter to the Ford Foundation', Harpers

Tags: 1960s; 1966; 1966-1-1; Endowments; Ford Foundation; Institutions and Funding; Social change; Social conditions; Social problems; Stern, Philip M.; STS; United States

'Headache Down South', Colliers Weekly

Tags: 1940s; 1946; 1946-7-13; Davenport, Walter; Employment; Engineering; Mechanization; Production; Racism; Social change

'Revolution in Cotton', Colliers Weekly

Tags: 1940s; 1945; 1945-7-21; Engineering; Mechanisation; Production; Ratcliff, J.D.; Social change

'Machines and individuals', Harpers

Tags: 1930s; 1936; 1936-12-1; Civilization; Critiques and Comments; Dresser, Peter Van; Mechanization; Modern; Social aspects; Social change; STS

'The Tennessee Valley experiment', Harpers

Tags: 1930s; 1935; 1935-5-1; civil engineering; Cost and standard of living; Engineering; Social change; Social life and customs; Tennessee River Valley; Tennessee Valley Authority

'Catastrophe or social control? The alternatives for America', Harpers

Tags: 1918-1932; 1930s; 1932; 1932-6-1; Economic policy; Economics; Niebuhr, Reinhold; Political stability; Social change; Social conditions; Social conflict; Social sciences; To 1933; United States