On this topic don’t neglect an important early work, based on considerable field work at sites where automation was occurring, by Shoshana Zuboff, In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power, published in 1988. At the time Zuboff was a professor in the Harvard Business School.

Joe Corn

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