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...

• | Edited By: Martha Lampland
• | Publisher: Cornell University Press
• | Publication Date: Dec 15, 2008
• | Country of Publication: United States
• | Number of Pages: 264 pages
• | Language: Unknown
• | Binding: Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0801474612
• | ISBN-13: 9780801474613