Technology and the future of work /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	New York : Oxford University Press, 1992.
Description:	1 online resource (xiv, 336 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Series:	OUP E-Books.
Subject:	Employees -- Effect of technological innovations on. Technological innovations. Employees -- Effect of technological innovations on. Technological innovations. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11152506

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Other authors / contributors:	Adler, Paul S.
ISBN:	0195071719 9780195071719 1423737482 9781423737483 0195361164 9780195361162 1280441208 9781280441202 9786610441204 6610441200
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
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.
Other form:	Print version: Technology and the future of work. New York : Oxford University Press, 1992
Standard no.:	ZBWT00427528

Table of Contents:

Contributors
1. Introduction
2. Automation and Competency Requirements in Manufacturing: A Case Study
3. Skill and Occupational Changes in U.S. Manufacturing
4. Automation and Work in Britain
5. New Concepts of Production and the Emergence of the Systems Controller
6. Institutions and Incentives for Developing Work-Related Knowledge and Skill
7. Issues in Skill Formation in Japanese Approaches to Automation
8. Technology, Industrial Relations, and the Problem of Organizational Transformation
9. Union Initiatives to Restructure Industry in Australia
10. Transforming the Routines and Contexts of Management, Work, and Technology
11. Innovation and Institutions: Notes on the Japanese Paradigm
Name Index
Subject Index

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