Modernization

Related keyterms: acceleration, bureaucratization, dynamo, enforced cooperation, Fordism, Gesellschaft (society) vs. Gemeinschaft (community), industrialization, the machine, massification, modernity, productivity, progressive era, scientific management, secularization, specialization, speed, standardization, Taylorism, urbanization (vs. agrarianism)

Related figures:  Henry Adams (1838-1918), Henry Ford (1863-1947), Frederick Taylor (1856-1915), Ferdinand Tönnes (1855-1936)

Also see: Efficiency

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