In the Age of the Smart Machine The Future of Work and Power

Name: In the Age of the Smart Machine The Future of Work and Power
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ISBN: 9780465032112

ISBN-10: 0465032117

ISBN-13: 9780465032112

Edition: 1989

Authors: Shoshana Zuboff

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A noted Harvard social scientist provides the most complete and important book to date on how today's advanced computer technology fundamentally changes the nature of work and power. Book jacket.

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List price: $31.99
Copyright year: 1989
Publisher: Basic Books
Publication date: 10/2/1989
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 490
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.738
Language: English

Shoshana Zuboff is chaired professor at the Harvard Business School. She lives in Maine with her husband and two children.



Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction: Dilemmas of Transformation in the Age of the Smart Machine



Knowledge and Computer-Mediated Work



The Laboring Body: Suffering and Skill in Production Work



The Abstraction of Industrial Work



The White-Collar Body in History



Office Technology as Exile and Integration



Mastering the Electronic Text



Authority: The Spiritual Dimension of Power



What Was Managerial Authority?



The Dominion of the Smart Machine



The Limits of Hierarchy in an Informated Organization



Technique: The Material Dimension of Power



The Information Panopticon



Panoptic Power and the Social Text


Conclusion: Managing the Informated Organization



The Scope of Information Technology in the Modern Workplace



Notes on Field-Research Methodology


Notes


Index