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Standards and Their Stories: How Quantifying, Classifying, and Formalizing Practices Shape Everyday Life
Standards and Their Stories: How Quantifying, Classifying, and Formalizing Practices Shape Everyday Life
Standardization is one of the defining aspects of modern life, its presence so pervasive that it is usually taken for granted. However cumbersome, onerous, or simply puzzling certain standards may be, their fundamental purpose in streamlining...
264 pages, 4 tables, 3 charts/graphs
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | December 15, 2008 |
ISBN13 | 9780801447174 |
Publishers | Cornell University Press |
Pages | 264 |
Dimensions | 155 × 235 × 25 mm · 430 g |
Language | English |
Editor | Lampland, Martha |
Editor | Star, Susan Leigh |