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Author Jones, Barry O.

Title Sleepers, wake! : technology and the future of work / Barry Jones
Edition 1990 edition
Published Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 1982
Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 1982

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Description 285 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Series Series 500
Series 500.
Contents Includes index
Summary Australia - like Britian, the US, Japan and Sweden - is passing through a postindustrial revolution. Manufacturing is declining as an employer: by the 1970s personal services had become the greatest area of employment. Now we live in an information - based economy. This book urges all of us to become aware of the implications of life in a 'post - service' era. The author draws together an eclectic range of sources and historical evidence to provide a global and controversial analysis of our position vis-a -vis both the past and the future. He also outlines a political programme which aims to ensure that we get the best and not the worst out of the technological revolution
Analysis Electronic data processing Social aspects Australia
Machinery in the workplace
Machinery in the workplace Australia
Technological innovations Social aspects
Technological innovations Social aspects Australia
Technological unemployment Australia
Employment. Effects of technological change. Australia
Social change. Role of technology
Society. Control by technologists
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 271-279
Notes In English
Subject Electronic data processing -- Social aspects -- Australia.
Employment (Economic theory) -- Australia.
Labor supply -- Australia.
Machinery in the workplace -- Australia.
Machinery in the workplace.
Science -- Social aspects.
Social change.
Technocracy.
Technological innovations -- Social aspects -- Australia.
Technological innovations -- Social aspects.
Technological innovations -- Australia.
Technological unemployment -- Australia.
Technological innovations.
Technologists.
Technological unemployment.
Technology -- Social aspects.
Technology and state.
Technology.
Unemployment.
Work.
SUBJECT Australia -- Economic conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009585
Author Jones, B
Rand Corporation.
LC no. 83125170
ISBN 0195542703 (paperback)
0195543432
Other Titles Technology and the future of work