摘要:

This article is based on a survey of manufacturing sites, and the relation between production innovation and skills provision strategies encountered therein. It discusses the ways in which trends towards process integration and product flexibility are encouraging moves away from the traditional dependence on ‘off‐the‐shelf’skills recruitment and towards a greater emphasis on training, often of a flexible and cross‐discipli

ISSN:0268-1072    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-005X.1987.tb00077.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1987

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

The attitudes and policy orientations of the West German unions to the development and utilisation of new technologies have changed substantially over the past three decades. Contemporary union policies are more critical and more politically oriented: the changes which they seek, to more successfully influence technological developments, have potentially crucial significance for the future character and stability of the West German industrial relations system.

ISSN:0268-1072    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-005X.1987.tb00078.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1987

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

This article examines the debate about whether new technology creates or displaces jobs. It emphasises the occupational dimension, in order to assess some of the policies relating to education, training and income distribution. Finally, the role of technological change is examined in terms of the quality of the resulting job structure and the issue of income and skill polarization.

ISSN:0268-1072    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-005X.1987.tb00079.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1987

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

In the past the NGA dominated the communications world of paper and ink. This domination is being undermined by the micro‐processor revolution which is creating an alternative communications world based on electronic devices and in which the NGA presently has little influence. Here the author analyses the strategies and policies adopted by the NGA to retain its influence in the ‘shrinking’communications world of paper and to gain some influence in the new communica

ISSN:0268-1072    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-005X.1987.tb00080.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1987

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

Industrialised nations have responded to the recent impact of new technology either by planning within a corporatist framework, or by reacting to changes determined by ‘market forces’. Australia is moving from the second to the first strategy because of a combination of political and legal changes, building upon traditional institut

ISSN:0268-1072    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-005X.1987.tb00081.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1987

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

The first issue of NTWE featured a piece on work organisation at the Swedish Mail Centre at Tomteboda. In the light of a recent visit there, the author responds to that original account.

ISSN:0268-1072    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-005X.1987.tb00082.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1987

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

Book review in this ArticleTechnology and the Human ProspectMachinery of Dominance, Women, Knowledge and Technical Know‐howComputer Chips and Paper Clips, Volume 1Gender and the Labour ProcessTowards the Automatic Factory? The Need for TrainingManaging New TechnologyThe Silicon Socie

ISSN:0268-1072    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-005X.1987.tb00083.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1987

数据来源: WILEY