Technology and the Future of Work

`This important book fills a major gap. It shoots down the mistaken belief that factories of the future will be staffed by large numbers of `low-skilled button pushers'. Business executives, labor leaders, and employees will find this book a valuable guide for setting strategies to meet the challenges of rapid technological change and intense foreign competition.' Edward E. Masters, President, National Planning Association
`A major source of ideas that can be used by all who are concerned about the role technology and workers will play in our future.' Donald E. Paterson, Retired Chair And CEO, Ford Motor Company
`Must reading for anyone concerned about either effective organizations or new technology. After reading the book, they will be concerned with both!' Richard E. Walton, Harvard University
'the contributions to his edited volume are commendable in their thoroughness and cosmopolitan in both their focus and authorship ... As a sophisticated treatment of the subject, Adler's collection is to be welcomed.' Malcolm Warner, Journal of General Management, Vol. 19, No. 2, Winter 1993
`the book is well-presented, and provides a useful overview of this more positive generation of research on technology, work and the future' Ergonomics Abstracts
All the essays of his excellent collection show how skills are the outcome of a hybrid of socio-technical features, some related to the company, some embedded in outside relations and institutions. * Acta Sociologica *