Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 3
5. PART ONE. The Culture of Efficiency in Society
6. 1. Efficiency and the Great Exhibition of 1851: Elation and Doubt 25
7. 2. Efficient Machines and Docile Bodies: Henry Ford and F.W. Taylor 38
8. 3. An Experiment in (In)Efficient Organization and Social Engineering: Auschwitz 77
9. 4. Efficiency and Disciplinary Power: The Iron Cage and the Suburb 113
10. PART TWO. The Culture of Efficiency in Fiction
11. 5. Efficiency and Population Control: Wells, Shaw, Orwell, Forster 153
12. 6. ‘Criminal’ Efficiency: Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness 185
13. 7. Efficient Management: D.H. Lawrence’s Women in Love 203
14. 8. Efficiency and Perverse Outcomes: Ford Madox Ford’s The Good Soldier 224
15. 9. Efficiency and Its Alternatives: E.M. Forster’s Howards End 246
16. 10. Efficiency and the Perfect Society: Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World 282
17. Notes 313
18. Works Cited 325
19. Index 335