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Book Synopsis Automation and Alienation by : Jon M. Shepard
Download or read book Automation and Alienation written by Jon M. Shepard and published by MIT Press (MA). This book was released on 1971 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: USA. Research study of the impact on occupational psychology of automation and technological change, with particular reference to the integration into, or alienation from work of industrial workers and office workers - describes the research methods used, covers computerization and EDP personnel, the effect of the changing division of labour on employees attitudes and Motivation to work and concludes that automated technology reduces the levels of alienation among both office employees and factory workers. Bibliography pp. 145 to 155, references and statistical tables.
Book Synopsis Automation, Alienation, and Anomie by : Simon Marcson
Download or read book Automation, Alienation, and Anomie written by Simon Marcson and published by New York : Harper & Row. This book was released on 1970 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compilation of selected readings on problems and issues raised by automation - includes social psychology, sociology, economics and business management, and covers technological change and alienation, social change, personnel management, human relations, labour relations, trends, etc. References.
Download or read book Sociology written by Anthony Giddens and published by Polity. This book was released on 2006 with total page 1121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This updated edition provides an ideal teaching text for first-year university and college courses.
Book Synopsis Seasonal Associate by : Heike Geissler
Download or read book Seasonal Associate written by Heike Geissler and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2018-12-04 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the brutalities of working life are transformed into exhaustion, shame, and self-doubt: a writer's account of her experience working in an Amazon fulfillment center. No longer able to live on the proceeds of her freelance writing and translating income, German novelist Heike Geissler takes a seasonal job at Amazon Order Fulfillment in Leipzig. But the job, intended as a stopgap measure, quickly becomes a descent into humiliation, and Geissler soon begins to internalize the dynamics and nature of the post-capitalist labor market and precarious work. Driven to work at Amazon by financial necessity rather than journalistic ambition, Heike Geissler has nonetheless written the first and only literary account of corporate flex-time employment that offers “freedom” to workers who have become an expendable resource. Shifting between the first and the second person, Seasonal Associate is a nuanced expose of the psychic damage that is an essential working condition with mega-corporations. Geissler has written a twenty-first-century account of how the brutalities of working life are transformed into exhaustion, shame, and self-doubt.
Book Synopsis Power in the Workplace by : Steven Peter Vallas
Download or read book Power in the Workplace written by Steven Peter Vallas and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a systematic case study of the hi-tech communications industry that reveals many trends in managerial authority in the workpace. Vallas reveals the mechanisms that enable advanced capitalist firms to achieve and maintain control over the workers they employ. He demonstrates that the spread and integration of automated technologies place lower level human labor in positions of declining power. The new regime does not deskill workers and need not lead toward what some have called electronic sweatshops. Nevertheless, Vallas concludes that increasing managerial control over production poses a major challenge to those who advocate labor participation in the management of American industries.
Book Synopsis Social Aspects of Alienation by : Mary H. Lystad
Download or read book Social Aspects of Alienation written by Mary H. Lystad and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 225 references to books, journals, and unpublished Ph. D. dissertations during the period 1959-1968. Arranged alphabetically by authors under broad topics. Author index.
Book Synopsis The Alienated Librarian by : Marcia J. Nauratil
Download or read book The Alienated Librarian written by Marcia J. Nauratil and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1989-07-21 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Alienated Llibrarian is a thoughtful, thorough analysis of the proletarianization of professional work throughout history. . . . What this book does is to present a penetrating investigation of the problem, draw thoughtful conclusions and suggest coping strategies. Collection Management This excellent book should attract a wide audience including professional librarians, library school faculty and students, library administrators,and the consulting community. It is highly recommended. Information Processing & Management [Nauratil's] analysis does help us gain an understanding of the issue, just as her concluding chapter on coping, and beyond, may help us address the issue when we are confronted with it. Wilson Library Bulletin Perhaps because of the popular stereotype of librarianship as a low-pressure, nonstressful profession, librarians have been largely overlooked in current research on occupational burnout. Yet, like other human service personnel who are in continual contact with the public, more and more librarians are experiencing burnout and consequent alienation in the workplace. This study is the first to provide a comprehensive analysis of the problem as it exists among today's librarians. Nauratil begins with an examination of the burnout phenomenon and the factors that contribute to stress and alienation in the human service professions. She discusses the additional pressures resulting from the dilemmas faced by libraries, including dwindling budgets, theft of library materials, understaffing, and the demand for broader or improved services. The costs associated with burnout--such as reduced productivity, rapid employee turnover, and deterioration of services--are also considered. The author asks whether alienation and burnout are the inevitable consequences of the librarian's job under contemporary conditions, and assesses the possible long-term effects of current developments both within library systems and in the communities and institutions they serve. Finally, she explores various strategies for coping with this type of occupational hazard and for strengthening the library system as a whole. This carefully researched and clearly written work will be a valuable resource for courses or research in librarianship, occupational sociology, personnel management, and related subjects.
Book Synopsis Social Aspects of Alienation by : United States. Public Health Service
Download or read book Social Aspects of Alienation written by United States. Public Health Service and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Work, Inc. written by Edmund Byrne and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2010-09-09 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining legal and philosophical problems for a new social contract that is fair to workers.
Download or read book (De)Automating the Future written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-09-02 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much has been written about the prospects of automation in recent years. While many have raised concerns over the threat of technological mass unemployment, others have anticipated a fully automated communist utopia which will provide material abundance to everyone. (De)Automating the Future gathers chapters that critically investigate automation’s ambivalences from inter-disciplinary Marxist perspectives. The contributions raise questions about automation’s affordances for postcapitalism, its transformation of manual and mental labour, and its role in the intensification of class antagonisms and exploitation.
Book Synopsis The Sociology of Work by : Stephen Edgell
Download or read book The Sociology of Work written by Stephen Edgell and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2005-12-18 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Stephen Edgell is to be commended for his ability to provide an overview of how work has been influenced by social structures over time. This book is divided into 10 chapters which cover the complexity of how ′work′ in its many forms has been studied and explored, primarily in European and North American contexts. As a survey text of occupations related to work, this is a good starting point for readers interested in obtaining a broad grounding in understanding theoretical perspectives and their application." - Lynn Cockburn, Journal of Occupational Science Steve Edgell has written an up-to-date, comprehensive guide to the sociology of every type of work: paid and unpaid, standard and non-standard, under- and unemployment. Sweeping in its historical reach and rigorous in its analysis of key issues of work, this book charts the rise of `work′ from the first human societies and provides nuanced understanding of the issues at stake in standard, non-standard, unpaid and voluntary work. Drawing on classic and contemporary theorists, the author: - covers key issues regarding paid work: alienation, post-industrial society, network enterprises in the informational society, flexibility, Fordism, McDonaldization, the destandardization of work and the social impact of unemployment and underemployment; - discusses key issues regarding non-paid work: domestic work as `work′, the impact of technology, the impact of feminism, feminization and globalization; - offers a historical perspective of work and gender. ′The overall sweep of the book – from pre-capitalist/industrial to post-globalism is attractive and challenging. The extension of the study of work beyond paid office/factory work is to be welcomed. In short this book will make a wise and welcomed addition to the existing range of sociological texts.′ - Professor Huw Beynon, Director School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University ′Stephen Edgell′s Sociology of Work is a reliable, comprehensive and accessible text. He has taken a number of central themes in this field and engaged with the relevant literature and debates in a thoughtful and authoritative way. The comparative and historical treatment of the topics offers an illuminating perspective on the contemporary world of work. Students will find this book to be an invaluable resource. I predict that their copies will become much thumbed and annotated!′ - John Eldridge, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Glasgow.
Download or read book Cutting Edge written by Jim Davis and published by Verso. This book was released on 1997 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rapid expansion of laborless production systems creates enormous instability. Money previously paid in wages is spent on technology. Workers lose jobs to robotic intelligence and, therefore, have no money to buy the goods produced by the technology. CUTTING EDGE provides an up-to-the-minute analysis of the complex relations between technology and work and how jobs and living standards can be protected.
Book Synopsis Marxism and Alienation by : Nicholas Churchich
Download or read book Marxism and Alienation written by Nicholas Churchich and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exposition and critique of the views of Marx and Marxists in which Marx's views are compared with other views and are explored in terms of theories, causes, and the transcendence of alienation; self-alienation and self-realization; and economic, religious, philosophic, scientific, social, and political alienation.
Book Synopsis Automation in Automotive Industries by : Anna Comacchio
Download or read book Automation in Automotive Industries written by Anna Comacchio and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: G. Volpato, A. Camuffo, A. Comacchio 1.1 The background During recent years the dynamics of automotive industry and its supply chain has catalysed the attention and the research effort of a wide international group of scholars as: the International Motor Vehicle Program (JMVP) of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Permanent Study Group for the Automobile Industry and Its Employees (GERPISA) of Paris, and the International Car Distribution l Programme (ICDP) of Solihull. This favoured the publication of relevant studies and the growth of networks of academicians and practitioners interested in studying the patterns of industry evolution and in organising meetings to present and discuss issues of common interest. In 1992 some members of these research projects decided to organize a first conference in Berlin dedicated to the main theme of automation and organization in the automobile industry. In 1993 a second conference took place in Tokyo, followed by a technical visit to a few automobile manufacturers and components suppliers plants (Toyota, Nissan, Mitsubishi, etc.).
Download or read book Xenofeminism written by Helen Hester and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-05-21 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an era of accelerating technology and increasing complexity, how should we reimagine the emancipatory potential of feminism? How should gender politics be reconfigured in a world being transformed by automation, globalization and the digital revolution? These questions are addressed in this bold new book by Helen Hester, a founding member of the 'Laboria Cuboniks' collective that developed the acclaimed manifesto 'Xenofeminism: A Politics for Alienation'. Hester develops a three-part definition of xenofeminism grounded in the ideas of technomaterialism, anti-naturalism, and gender abolitionism. She elaborates these ideas in relation to assistive reproductive technologies and interrogates the relationship between reproduction and futurity, while steering clear of a problematic anti-natalism. Finally, she examines what xenofeminist technologies might look like in practice, using the history of one specific device to argue for a future-oriented gender politics that can facilitate alternative models of reproduction. Challenging and iconoclastic, this visionary book is the essential guide to one of the most exciting intellectual trends in contemporary feminism.
Book Synopsis The Evolution of Alienation by : Lauren Langman
Download or read book The Evolution of Alienation written by Lauren Langman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2006 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building on the Marxian view of alienation as the inevitable consequence of wage labour that divests human beings of control over their life forces, this book provides insights into contemporary conditions. It explores how alienation is fostered not only by television freak shows and shock music, but also by programmed schooling.
Book Synopsis Personnel Literature by : United States. Office of Personnel Management. Library
Download or read book Personnel Literature written by United States. Office of Personnel Management. Library and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 790 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
