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Technological Advance in an Expanding Economy
Ben B. Seligman,Eva Mueller +1 more
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On the Degradation of Skills
TL;DR: Although social scientists have long believed that mechanization degrades skills, they disagree on the meaning and measurement of skills as mentioned in this paper, and they also show that scientific management deskilled workers slightly and that management successfully wrested control of work organization from the traditional crafts.
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Workers and Machines: Dimensions and Determinants of Technical Relations in the Workplace
James N. Baron,William T. Bielby +1 more
TL;DR: This paper examined the relationship between work organization and stratification processes, specifically, the dimensions and determinants of workers' technical roles, and found pervasive gender differences in the forces affecting worker-machine relations: ascriptive characteristics and schooling are more decisive for women.
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Worker involvement in implementing new technology
Thomas Hyclak,Michael G. Kolchin +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the importance of worker involvement in the implementation of new technology and suggest that worker involvement is even more critical in implementing new technology as such involvement not only results in less resistance to technological change but, more importantly, greater support and commitment from workers for technological change.
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Sociological Research and the American Working Class
TL;DR: The authors reveals that sociologists disagree on the composition of the working class and neglect to specify relationships among its manual, clerical, and service workers, contrary to Marxi....
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A portrait of the relationship between mechanization and work in the U.S. economy
Paul S. Adler,Bryan Borys +1 more
TL;DR: The authors analyzed the relationship between mechanization and work characteristics using data from the 1980 Census of Population and found that the work characteristics of more mechanized industries are upgraded in the aggregate, compared to those in less mechanised industries.