The Rational Factory THE PENNSYLVANIA HISTORICAL AND MUSEUM COMMISSION and Stacy Wolf

and Stacy Wolf

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The Rational Factory THE PENNSYLVANIA HISTORICAL AND MUSEUM COMMISSION and Stacy WolfSearching for a ''rational'' workplace, turn of the century engineers and industrial architects recast the factory itself in the image of the machine. Indeed, they considered the factory building the ''master machine,'' containing and coordinating all of the machinery within. Such rational factory planning improved production speed and the management of workers. Once created, the rational factory transformed the nature of work, both human and