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The reorganization of work is taking place on the shopfloor and, where there are unions, in collective bargaining. Many of these changes, particularly in non-union environments, occur under the heading of ‘job redesign’. Where a union exists, these job redesign programmes are in the form of contract concessions.
I don’t feel the NC machines or any type of automation are going to make machinists into operators. If anybody is going to do that it will be the people who make the decisions, not the machines itself.
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Robert Wrenn, ‘Management and Work Humanization’, Insurgent Sociologist, Vol. XI, No. 3 (Fall 1982): 23–38;
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Giordano, L. (1992). Merger of Job Classifications. In: Beyond Taylorism. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22235-3_5
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