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

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New York : Oxford University Press, 1992.
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1 online resource (xiv, 336 pages) : illustrations
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Adler, Paul S.
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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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ISBN
0195071719
9780195071719
1423737482 (electronic bk.)
9781423737483 (electronic bk.)
0195361164
9780195361162
1280441208
9781280441202
9786610441204
6610441200
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Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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