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Sleepers, wake! : technology and the future of work / Barry Jones.
LIBRA HD6331.2.A8 J66 1984
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jones, Barry O.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Machinery in the workplace--Australia.
- Machinery in the workplace.
- Technological innovations--Social aspects--Australia.
- Technological innovations.
- Technological unemployment--Australia.
- Technological unemployment.
- Electronic data processing--Social aspects--Australia.
- Electronic data processing.
- Technological innovations--Social aspects.
- Electronic data processing--Social aspects.
- Australia.
- Physical Description:
- 285 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- New edition, reprinted with corrected.
- Place of Publication:
- Melbourne ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1984.
- Summary:
- Just as the industrial revolution rattled the foundations of 18th- and 19th-century society, so today's high-technology revolution is sure to have an equally profound effect on people and employment in all advanced societies. But will these changes enhance or degrade the quality of life to come? This second edition of Sleepers, Wake!, now with completely updated figures, investigates the impact of past technological revolutions on the work process and labor force. Drawing on an eclectic range of sources, the book provides a provocative analysis of work and technology today and suggests a political program for getting the best, not the worst, out of our current technological revolution.
- Notes:
- "Series 500."
- Bibliography: pages 271-279.
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 0195544536
- 0195543432
- 0195542703
- OCLC:
- 12325399
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