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.
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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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Title
Technology and the future of work.
CORPORATE BODY NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Kommunikationstechnik
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Employees-- Effect of technological innovations on.
Technological innovations.
Personnel, Effets des innovations sur le.
Arbeidsorganisatie.
Arbeitsbedingungen
Arbeitsorganisation
Arbeitswelt
Automatisering.
Beschäftigung
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS-- Labor.
Employees-- Effect of technological innovations on.