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New Technology and the Labour Process

✍ Scribed by David Knights, Hugh Willmott (eds.)


Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year
1988
Tongue
English
Leaves
289
Series
Studies in the Labour Process
Edition
1
Category
Library

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✦ Synopsis


The papers in this volume examine the conditions and consequences of micro-electronic technology within one or more of various spheres of the labour process.

✦ Table of Contents


Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction....Pages 1-19
Computer Technology in Organisations: Some Critical Notes....Pages 20-49
Work, Participation and Co-Determination in Computer-Based Manufacturing....Pages 50-65
Computer Numerical Control and Constraint....Pages 66-90
Managerial Strategies, Information Technology and Engineers....Pages 91-117
Information Technology and the Control Function of Supervision....Pages 118-142
How Much Change at the Store? The Impact of New Technologies and Labour Processes on Managers and Staffs in Retail Distribution....Pages 143-162
Beyond Taylorism: Computerisation and QWL Programmes in the Production Process....Pages 163-196
Computer Redesign and β€˜Labour Process’ Theory: Towards a Critical Appraisal....Pages 197-229
The Use of Technology and the Development of Qualifications: How the Debate about the Labour Process is Viewed in German Industrial Sociology....Pages 230-264
Back Matter....Pages 265-278

✦ Subjects


Labor Economics


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