New Technology and Manufacturing Management: Strategic Choices for Flexible Production Systems (New Technologies and Work: A Wiley Series) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0471924547 ISBN 13: 9780471924548

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 1990

Synopsis

The author's aim is to present an alternative view to the technology-centred approach which dominates many of the endeavours in the field and to contrast it with a human-centred one. This human-centred approach emphasizes competence and skills as opposed to hardware, and underlines the social choices which are available, thus playing down the deterministic approach of many of the "technology" theorists. The chapters are designed to illustrate a European perspective on a humanistic application of the new manufacturing technology, which is socially acceptable and managerially viable.

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267p hardback, from a Cambridge college library, glazed cover in very good condition, only minor bumping to extremities, binding tight, internally clean and bright, hardly any signs of previous use, very good.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0471924547
• ISBN 13: 9780471924548
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288
• Editor: Warner Malcolm, Wobbe Werner, Brödner Peter