Examining the proliferation of reinforced-concrete construction in the United States after 1900; historian Amy E. Slaton considers how scientific approaches and occupations displaced traditionally skilled labor. The technology of concrete buildings—little studied by historians of engineering; architecture; or industry—offers a remarkable case study in the modernization of American production.The use of concrete brought to construction the new procedures and priorities of mass production. These included a comprehensive application of science to commercial enterprise and vast redistributions of skills; opportunities; credit; and risk in the workplace. Reinforced concrete also changed the American landscape as building buyers embraced the architectural uniformity and simplicity to which the technology was best suited. Based on a wealth of data that includes university curricula; laboratory and company records; organizational proceedings; blueprints; and promotional materials as well as a rich body of physical evidence such as tools; instruments; building materials; and surviving reinforced-concrete buildings; this book tests the thesis that modern mass production in the United States came about not simply in answer to manufacturers search for profits; but as a result of a complex of occupational and cultural agendas.
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