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Brickman, W., & Lehrer S. (1966).  Automation, education, and human values.
"A fourth reason [we regard widespread automation with suspicion] lies in our inability to think of a responsible role in society which is not evaluated as a job, paid for with money, which individuals seek freely, from which they can be fired, and at which they must work or else, if not starve, they will live in humiliation and deprivation. We can look forward to a day in which the privilege of working will be open to all but under no threat of starvation." (p. 69)
Rawlins, G. J. E. (1997).  Moths to the Flame: The Seductions of Computer Technology.
Often the computer's introduction leads to job loss, loss of job skills, and feelings of dehumanization. When a business uses computers, its employees become more interchangeable, more reliable, more controllable, and—usually—cheaper. The siren call of automation results in step-by-step changes in jobs to make them fit better into the maw of the beast. just as the industrial revolution turned artisans into factory hands, the information revolution is turning white-collar workers into machine tenders." (p. 118)
Hodson, R., & Sullivan T. A. (1995).  Social Organization of Work.
"In 1952 Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., wrote The Player Piano1. The novel portrays a future society in which automation has eliminated all jobs except those of a few select engineers. Unemployment is pervasive in spite of public works projects and a chronic state of manufactured war with an illusive enemy." (p. 208)
Redekop, C., & Bender U. A. (1988).  Who Am I? What Am I: Search for Meaning in Your Work.
See also: computerization, mechanistic organization

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automation

  • Concept: automation
    • preferred: automation
    • definition: the act of implementing the control of equipment with advanced technology; usually involving electronic hardware; "automation replaces human workers by machines"
    • related: computerization
    • related: mechanistic_organization
    • closeMatch: http://purl.org/vocabularies/princeton/wn30/synset-automation-noun-1.rdf
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      • sense: automation
      • sense: mechanisation
      • sense: mechanization
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      • in scheme: http://purl.org/vocabularies/princeton/wn30/
      • gloss: the act of implementing the control of equipment with advanced technology; usually involving electronic hardware; "automation replaces human workers by machines"
      • hyponym of: http://purl.org/vocabularies/princeton/wn30/synset-high_technology-noun-1
      • synset id: 100102457
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