| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 336 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Employees -- Effect of technological innovations on.
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Employees -- Effect of technological innovations on. |
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Technological innovations.
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Technological innovations. |
| Indexed Term |
Employment Effects of Development Of Technology |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Adler, Paul S.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Technology and the future of work. New York : Oxford University Press, 1992 (DLC) 91017526 |
| ISBN |
0195071719 |
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9780195071719 |
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1423737482 (electronic book) |
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9781423737483 (electronic book) |
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0195361164 |
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9780195361162 |
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1280441208 |
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9781280441202 |
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