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Author Booth, Alan, 1949- author.

Title The management of technical change : automation in the UK and USA since 1950 / Alan Booth
Published Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 274 pages) : illustrations
Contents Automation: The Political and Economic Context -- Global and National Politics of Production -- The Enterprise Level, 1: Automation and Crises of Authority in Engineering -- The Enterprise Level, 2: Feedback Mechanisms and Computer Control in the Continuous Flow Industries -- The Enterprise Level, 3: Computers, Clerical Work and Management -- The Enterprise Level, 4: Bank Automation
Summary This study examines the management of automation in Britain and America since 1950 and is divided into three parts. The first creates a framework for studying technology transfer by exploring the most important international and national political and economic conditions that affect the pace of this process. The second takes four case studies: automatic transfer technology and computer-controlled machine tools in engineering; accurate and refined instrumentation and control technologies in continuous flow industries like oil refining, chemicals and steel making; computerisation of routine clerical work and management decision-taking; and bank automation as an example of over-enthusiastic learning about the potential of computerisation. the third part deploys the same methodology to understand the impact of Japanisation on both Britain and the UK in the 1980s and 1990s. Emphasis is placed on the acquisition of knowledge about technological opportunities and the management of skilled labout throughout parts two and three
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-263) and index
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Subject Technological innovations -- Great Britain -- Management
Technological innovations -- United States -- Management
Automation -- Economic aspects -- Great Britain
Automation -- Economic aspects -- United States
Employees -- Effect of technological innovations on -- Great Britain
Employees -- Effect of technological innovations on -- United States
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Industrial Technology.
Automation -- Economic aspects
Employees -- Effect of technological innovations on
Technological innovations -- Management
Great Britain
United States
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780230800601
0230800602
1280818573
9781280818578