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- Title
Work and its Control in Industrial Society.
- Authors
Dunkerley, David
- Abstract
The article focuses on the role of technology in industrial societies. Technology and technological development are held to be good and to be welcomed. From another point of view, it can be argued that technological forms deny to the individual at work any judgment, discretion, or decision making. Moreover, in the post-industrial era, it is argued that new technologies develop new values in society in general and work organization. Mechanical and electrical power are more substituted for human power at work and any task that can be program will be performed by machines rather than by human intervention.
- Subjects
TECHNOLOGICAL innovations; ECONOMIC development; DISCRETION; JUDGMENT (Psychology); DECISION making; POST-industrial society theory; ORGANIZATIONAL structure; SOCIAL interaction; DEVELOPED countries
- Publication
Social Alternatives, 1979, Vol 1, Issue 4, p38
- ISSN
0155-0306
- Publication type
Article