Download or read book Impact of Robots and Computers on the Work Force of the 1980 s written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business. Subcommittee on General Oversight and the Economy and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Automation of America s Offices 1985 2000 written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Automation of America s Offices 1985 2000 written by Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Office of Technology Assessment and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1985 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study assesses the consequences of the continuing and rapid introduction of information and telecommunications technologies in offices. The report of the study contains 12 chapters. After a brief look at the context of office automation from the perspective of history, the first chapter highlights some expectations about the technologies and their development over the next 15 years. It also introduces a framework that guides the assessment, summarizes the findings, and identifies policy issues for the next decade. Chapters 2 through 6 discuss the possible effects of office automation in more detail. They deal with potential effects on employment levels; the kind of training and education needed for office work; changes in work content, jobs, occupations, and organizations; the quality of work life, the office environment and labor management relations; and the security and confidentiality of information. Chapters 7 and 8 consider two alternatives to conventional offices, made feasible by office automation: home-based work and performance of data-entry operations in countries with lower paid workers. Chapter 9 and 10 look at office automation in the public sector, while Chapter 11 deals with office automation and small businesses. The final chapter considers the implications of office automation for two groups: working women and minorities. Appendix A describes office automation technology as it is now and as it is likely to develop between 1985 and 2000, while Appendix B summarizes case studies of the automation of several offices. (KC)

Download or read book The Future Impact of Automation on Workers written by Wassily Leontief and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1986-01-16 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the computer revolution has created hundreds of thousands of new jobs, it has threatened as many other jobs with obsolescence and has often caused the displacement of workers by computer-based machines. Here, Nobel Prize-winning economist Wassily Leontief and Faye Duchin use the input-output approach, a method that has been widely applied in examining structural economic change, to analyze the complex issues surrounding the impact of computer-driven automation on employment. Following a general discussion of the impact of automation on employment, they focus on four specific sectors within the economy--manufacturing, office work, education, and health care. The input-output approach makes it possible to draw conclusions regarding both overall employment and the prospects for individual occupations. Taking account of the increased need for workers in the production of computer-based equipment, the authors conclude that by the year 2000 automation will not cause dramatic unemployment if the economy is able to achieve a smooth transition from the old to new technologies.

Download or read book The Impact of Advanced Automation and the Cloud on Employment written by Aidan Mc Carron and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2018-08-13 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Master's Thesis from the year 2015 in the subject Computer Science - Commercial Information Technology, grade: 2.1, Trinity College Dublin - The University of Dublin, language: English, abstract: One of the primary fears in the current global community is the exponential growth and continued sophistication of artificial intelligence. Fundamental to this concern is the wide ranging impact that this growth will not only leave on the world as we currently know it, but on the place of humans in that world. This has become termed as ‘the singularity’—the point in time when machines will become self-learning, and more importantly, self-aware. It is at this point that machines and robotics will be elevated from the current monotonous job operations to more high skilled areas. This study looks into the drive towards advanced automation and the increased sophistication of artificial intelligence in conjunction with the cloud and how this growth will eventually lead to technological unemployment. Some economists are predicting up to a 50% job loss or more. Predicting the future typically means extrapolating the past. It often fails to anticipate breakthroughs. But it is precisely those unpredictable breakthroughs in computing that could have the biggest impact on the workforce. Education and up skilling current workers will be the only way to ensure continued relevance within an automated workforce. By focusing on education it will ensure people are best placed to take advantage of this new age of advanced automation. This dissertation concludes that innovation through creativity will ensure employment opportunities continue to present themselves to those best prepared for such changes.

Download or read book The Impact of Office Automation on Clerical Employment 1985 2000 written by J David Roessner and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1985-12-23 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors identify and analyze ways in which office automation will affect the future of clerical employment in the banking and insurance industries over the period 1985-2000. They describe the impact of office automation on both aggregate levels of clerical employment and the nature of clerical tasks, and suggest that clerical jobs will increasingly involve tasks now associated with managerial work. The authors present a new forecasting method to investigate the potential effects that rapidly changing technologies could have on work and workers. They also cover the public policy implications of office automation. ISBN 0-89930-119-3 : $49.95.

Download or read book Adolescence and Work written by David Stern and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume illustrates connections between the concerns of vocational psychology and the adjoining disciplines of sociology, cultural anthropology, and labor economics. The intent is to suggest how vocational psychology and career counseling might recognize more explicitly the ever-changing social influences and institutional constraints that affect individual as they begin,or contemplate beginning, their adult work.

Download or read book Toward a New Era in U S Manufacturing written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Beyond Survival written by Cyrus Bina and published by M.E. Sharpe. This book was released on 1996 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains 11 essays which explore labour's decline, and avenues for its revitalization. Included are case studies drawn from the coal mining, manufacturing, and motor vehicle industries. Discusses changing labour relations in the workplace which effectively diminish trade union power. A common thread linking the essays is the "recognition of the fundamental antagonism between capital and labor."

Download or read book Computerized Manufacturing Automation written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Postsuburban California written by Rob Kling and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1995-05-30 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preface to the paperback edition: Beyond the edge : the dynamism of postsuburban regions / Rob Kling, Spencer Olin, and Mark Poster -- The emergence of postsuburbia : an introduction / Rob Kling, Spencer Olin, and Mark Poster -- The multinucleated metropolitan region : a comparative analysis / M. Gottdiener and George Kephart -- Designing the model community : the Irvine Company and suburban development, 1950-88 / Martin J. Schiesl -- The information labor force / Rob Kling and Clark Turner -- Changing consumption patterns / Alladi Venkatesh -- Public ceremony in a private culture : Orange County celebrates the Fourth of July / Debra Gold Hansen and Mary P. Ryan -- Narcissism or liberation? : the affluent middle-class family / Mark Poster -- Intraclass conflict and the politics of a fragmented region / Spencer Olin -- Grass-roots protest and the politics of planning : Santa Ana, 1976-88 / Lisbeth Haas -- The taxpayers' revolt / William F. Gayk.

Download or read book Resource Management written by and published by . This book was released on 1987-05 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Industrialization of Intelligence written by Noah Kennedy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1989 The Industrialization of Intelligence is a spirited blend of the principles of social science and computer technology. Critically praised in the United States and England by leading lights both literary and technological, it develops an original and provocative model of the interplay between computer systems and social systems. Noah Kennedy has composed a compelling story from key episodes in the development of the computer, and coupled it with a probing analysis of the true role of automation in modem society. The result firmly plants computer technology in the soil of western culture and denies the shrill claims that the information age represents a sudden break with the historical past. He starts with biographical vignettes from the lives of five pivotal thinkers, weaving their crucial insights into the larger fabric of contemporary and future society. He then gives a provocative forecast of the role of artificial intelligence in future society, and examines the probable impact of new computer technologies on employment and on the relationships between nations. The result is a reasoned understanding of our imminent future through a thoughtful analysis of our historical past.

Download or read book Strategic Issues in Information Technology written by Hellmut Schütte and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strategic Issues in Information Technology: International Implications for Decision Makers presents the significant development of information technology in the output of components, computers, and communication equipment and systems. This book discusses the integration of information technology into factories and offices to increase productivity. Organized into six parts encompassing 12 chapters, this book begins with an overview of the advancement towards an automated interpretation communication system to achieve real international communication. This text then examines the main determining factors for development. Other chapters consider the issue of domestic interests versus international cooperation. This book discusses as well the rapid progress in information technology, which results in pervasive and basic change across the range of human activity in industry, trade, public service, government, work, and leisure. The final chapter deals with information technology's potential impact on industrialized economies and societies. This book is a valuable resource for engineers, designers, entrepreneurs, and managers.

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Download or read book Slow Growth and the Service Economy written by Pascal Petit and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-11-07 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The slow-down in economic growth and the rise in unemployment in the 1970s revived some of the uncertainties experienced by industrialized economies during the inter-war period. After more than a decade of stagnation, the period of sustained growth in the thirty years following the Second World War now seems increasingly to have been an exceptional phase in an overall development process still dominated by wide fluctuations in economic growth rates. Slow Growth and the Service Economy examines what it means to live in a period of economic recession and analyses social patterns in response to the slowing down of financial and economic growth.