Synopses & Reviews
This book examines the management of technical change in Britain and the USA in the years since 1945, focusing on the automation of manufacturing and office processes. The management of change is analysed within a political-economic and comparative framework.
Synopsis
This book examines the management of technical change in manufacturing and services through an explicit political-economic framework. It examines the management of automation in Britain and America since 1950, and it applies the same useful framework to explore the impact of Japanization on both Britain and the US in the 1980s and 1990s.
Table of 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 * Conclusion