Title: Technological change at work /
Authors: McLoughlin, Ian, 1956-; Clark, Jon,
Publisher: Open University Press,
Year: 1994
Subjects: Labor supply Effect of technological innovations on Great Britain.
Abstract: Focuses on automation in its most pervasive contemporary guise - computing and information technologies. The authors present their own "processual" framework for understanding technological change and its outcomes, and devote attention to the independent influence of the technology itself.
Contents: 1. New technology at work -- 2. Analysing technological change at work -- 3. The management of human resources and technological change -- 4. Trade unions and technological change -- 5. New technology, work tasks and skills -- 6. New technology, job content and work organization -- 7. New technology, supervision and control -- 8. Technological change at work in comparative perspective -- 9. Conclusions.