The Microelectronics Revolution: The Complete Guide to the New Technology and Its Impact on Society - Hardcover

FORESTER

 
9780631116516: The Microelectronics Revolution: The Complete Guide to the New Technology and Its Impact on Society

Synopsis

"The Microelectronics Revolution" is a comprehensive guide to the silicon chip revolution and its impact on society. The distinguished contributors to this volume explain in turn the origins and nature of microelectronics, the characteristics of the burgeoning microchip industry and the increasing use of microprocessors in everyday products.The book details the impact of this new technology on society in separate chapters which take up automation on the factory floor, the word-processing revolution in the office, the consequences for employment, and the implications for industrial relations. A final section discusses the problems of a microelectronic age -- 'the information society.'With a discerning guide to further reading at the end of each chapter, this book forms a basis of management, trade union, and college courses on society and the new technology.

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

Other Popular Editions of the Same Title

9780631125723: The Microelectronics Revolution: The Complete Guide to the New Technology and Its Impact on Society

Featured Edition

ISBN 10:  0631125728 ISBN 13:  9780631125723
Publisher: Wiley–Blackwell, 1980
Softcover