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The instinct of workmanship, and the state of industrial arts

Chapter 1: THE INSTINCT OF WORKMANSHIP
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An analytical essay argues that the human impulse to make, improve, and take pride in work is a foundational determinant of technological habits and social institutions. It traces development from primitive tool-use through predatory and handicraft phases to machine industry, showing how ownership, competition, and status-seeking shape or distort productive impulses. Separate chapters consider contamination of original productive instincts by predatory motives, the institutional role of property and competitive systems, and the reorganization of workmanship under mechanization. The inquiry proceeds on materialist premises and treats technological practice as both conditioned by and conditioning wider cultural conventions.

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Title: The instinct of workmanship, and the state of industrial arts

Author: Thorstein Veblen

Release date: January 28, 2023 [eBook #69888]
Most recently updated: October 19, 2024

Language: English

Original publication: United States: The Macmillan Company, 1914

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