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Technology and the future of work / Paul S. Adler, editor.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 1992.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 336 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0195071719
  • 9780195071719
  • 1423737482
  • 9781423737483
  • 0195361164
  • 9780195361162
  • 1280441208
  • 9781280441202
  • 9786610441204
  • 6610441200
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Technology and the future of work.DDC classification:
  • 331.25 20
LOC classification:
  • HD6331 .T419 1992eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Automation and competency requirements in manufacturing: A case study / Larry Hirschhorn and Joan Mokray -- Skill and occupational changes in U.S. manufacturing / Paul Attewell -- Automation and work in Britain / Peter J. Senker -- New concepts of production and the emergence of the systems controller / Horst Kern and Michael Schumann -- Institutions and incentives for developing work-related knowledge and skill / David Stern -- Issues in skill formation in Japanese approaches to automation / Robert E. Cole -- Technology, industrial relations, and the problem of organizational transformation / Robert J. Thomas and Thomas A. Kochan -- Union initiatives to restructure industry in Australia / Max Ogden -- Transforming the routines and contexts of management, work, and technology / Claudio U. Ciborra and Leslie S. Schneider -- Innovation and institutions: Notes on the Japanese paradigm / Thomas B. Lifson.
Summary: The essays in this volume contradict the conventional assumption that automation will not only reduce the number of workers required to produce a given product but also require less skilled workers to produce it.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Automation and competency requirements in manufacturing: A case study / Larry Hirschhorn and Joan Mokray -- Skill and occupational changes in U.S. manufacturing / Paul Attewell -- Automation and work in Britain / Peter J. Senker -- New concepts of production and the emergence of the systems controller / Horst Kern and Michael Schumann -- Institutions and incentives for developing work-related knowledge and skill / David Stern -- Issues in skill formation in Japanese approaches to automation / Robert E. Cole -- Technology, industrial relations, and the problem of organizational transformation / Robert J. Thomas and Thomas A. Kochan -- Union initiatives to restructure industry in Australia / Max Ogden -- Transforming the routines and contexts of management, work, and technology / Claudio U. Ciborra and Leslie S. Schneider -- Innovation and institutions: Notes on the Japanese paradigm / Thomas B. Lifson.

Print version record.

The essays in this volume contradict the conventional assumption that automation will not only reduce the number of workers required to produce a given product but also require less skilled workers to produce it.

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