1st Edition
New Technologies and Work Capitalist and Socialist Perspectives
1. Conditions and Consequences of the Introduction of New Technology at Work Peter Grootings 2. Flexible Machining Systems in the Czechoslovak Engineering Industry Jaroslav Jirásek 3. The Introduction of New Technology in Industrial Enterprises of the German Democratic Republic: Two Case Studies Georg Assmann, Detlev Nagel and Rudhard Stollberg 4. New Technology and Work in Hungary: Technological Innovation Without Organisational Adaptation Katalin Nagy 5. Technological Innovations and Work in the Soviet Union Vitalina Koval and Michael Nochevnik 6. The Taming of New Technology. A Polish Case Study on the Introduction of a Flexible Manufacturing System Jolanta Kulpinska and Slawomir Skalmierski 7. Introduction of Computerised Numerical Control and the Rationalisation of Production: the Belgian Case Roger Kesteloot 8. The Introduction and Use of CNC in the Federal Republic of Germany Otfried Mickler 9. Technological Change in Four British Factories: Some Lessons from the Introduction of CNC Machine Tools Arthur Francis 10. Transforming Industrial Work in Finland Pertti Koistinen 11. Technological Changes in Two Dutch Factories: Control, Flexibility and Learning Jan Berting and Hans van de Braak. Appendix: Typology of Machine-Tool Technologies Roger Kesteloot
Biography
Arthur Francis
