Computerization of the Workplace

作者: Beverly H. Burris

DOI: 10.1146/ANNUREV.SOC.24.1.141

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摘要: Divergent conceptualizations of the recent changes in work organization that have accompanied computerization include neo-Bravermanian analyses, postindustrial and contingency analyses. To make sense these differing views, paper surveys sociological research on its impact three analytically separate dimensions workplace: organizational restructuring, worker skill, power authority relationships. The review reveals computerized organizations typically fewer hierarchical levels, a bifurcated workforce, frequently with race sex segregation, less formal structure, diminished use internal labor markets reliance instead external credentialing. Variable patterns centralization decentralization occur, workplace relationships interact technological change to produce variable political outcomes. With regard skills, evidence suggests aggregate upskilling some deskilling ...

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