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Technical Alliance

Technical Alliance

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The Technical Alliance was a group of engineers, scientists, and technicians based in New York City, formed towards the end of 1919 by American engineer Howard Scott. The Alliance started an Energy Survey of North America, aimed at documenting the wastefulness of the capitalist system.[1]

The Technical Alliance advocated a more rational and productive society headed by technical experts, but their survey work failed to have a significant impact. Although some waste was documented, the "prosperity and conservatism of the 1920s undermined the political orientation of the Technical Alliance", and it disbanded in 1921,[1][2][3] and the energy survey was not completed.[4]

Members

The Technical Alliance was by no means a mass organization, but it did have some notable members and technical experts. Apart from Scott, other members of the Technical Alliance included:[5]

References

  1. [1]
    Burris 1993, p. 28.
  2. [2]
    Segal 2005, p. 121.
  3. [3]
    Akin 1977, p. 37.
  4. [4]
    Akin 1977, p. 61-62.
  5. [5]
    Akin 1977, p. 34-35.

Sources

  • Burris, Beverly H. (1993). Technocracy at Work. Albany: State University of New York Press. ISBN 978-0-7914-1496-5.
  • Segal, Howard P. (2005). Technological Utopianism in American Culture (20th anniversary ed.). Syracuse: Syracuse University Press. ISBN 978-0-8156-3061-6.
  • Akin, William E. (1977). Technocracy and the American Dream: The Technocrat Movement, 1900-1941. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-03110-4.
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