**Forces of Production: A Social History of Industrial Automation** is a
1984 [book](List_of_Libertarian_Socialist_Media "wikilink") by [David
Noble](David_Noble "wikilink").

## Summary

### Chapter One The Setting: The War Abroad

### Chapter Two The Setting: The War at Home

### Chapter Three Power and the Power of Ideas

### Chapter Four Toward the Automatic Factory

### Chapter Five By the Numbers I

### Chapter Six By the Numbers II

### Chapter Seven The Road Not Taken

### Chapter Eight Development: A Free Lunch

### Chapter Nine Diffusion: A Glimpse of Reality

### Chapter Ten Deployment: Power in Numbers

### Chapter Eleven Who's Running the Shop?

### Epilogue Another Look at Progress

## External Links

  - [Forces of
    Production](https://deterritorialinvestigations.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/david_f-_noble_david_f-_noble_forces_of_productbookza-org.pdf)