Joan Greenbaum
Biographic Data
| ID | 5580201 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joan Greenbaum |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joan |
| FAMILY NAME | Greenbaum |
| SIGNATURE | GREENBAUM J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Computer Information Systems, LaGuardia Community College, Long Island City, NY |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Introduction
To system designers, the people who use computers are awkwardly called "users," a muddy term that unfortunately tends to focus on the people sitting in front of a screen rather than on the actual work people are doing. The word lumps all kinds of workplace activity together implicitly putting the computer in focus and treating people as a blurred background. Although the identification of user issues now dominates the computer management and syst…
Design at Work
Contents: J. Greenbaum, M. Kyng, Preface: Memories of the Past. J. Greenbaum, M. Kyng, Introduction: Situated Design. Part I:Reflecting on Work Practice. L. Bannon, From Human Factors to Human Actors: The Role of Psychology and Human-Computer Interaction Studies in System Design. E. Wynn, Taking Practice Seriously. L.A. Suchman, R.H. Trigg, Understanding Practice: Video as a Medium for Reflection and Design. P.B. Andersen, B. Holmqvist, Language,…
On Twenty-Five Years With Braverman's Labor and Monopoly Capital (or, How Did Control and Coordination of Labor Get Into the Software So Quickly?)
I was extremely pleased to have the opportunity to read, once again, Braverman's Labor and Monopoly Capital and to reflect on the last twenty-five years. While the years seem to gallop now, I want to try in this brief time period to capture a few moments and reflections and share them with you.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this…
The Times They Are A’Changing
Computer information systems, like systems of work organisation, are designed. Sometimes the designers are computer systems analysts working for the same company for which they are developing information systems, developing for example new inventory control programs. At other times the designers may be consultants or outside vendors who develop systems for the general public such as general accounting packages. Whatever the method of system devel…
The Forest and the Trees
"By now, these trends have created an 'industrial reserve army,' to borrow a term from Karl Marx—so large that a quite extraordinary and prolonged surge in output would be required to put all its members to full-time, well-paid work." —Time, November 22, 1993This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review websi…
The head and the heart
In recent years there has been a good deal of healthy experimentation with system development methods and work organization, particularly within Scandinavia. This paper attempts to go further into the questions of the development and use of computer systems by using a gender analysis of the issues. Specifically, it examines the organization of labor and patterns of communication used in developing computer systems. It suggests that the use of gen…
Zen and the art of teaching systems development
There has been a great deal written about curriculum for teaching systems development, but very little said about the methods and practices of the teaching process itself. This article, in the form of an open letter to colleagues, addresses itself to the problems and experiences we have had in teaching systems development. Specifically, it focuses on the contradiction between education and experience and suggests some metaphors and methods for be…
Resistance and Accomodation
Review of Industry and Labor, Class Struggle at Work and Monopoly Capitalism by Andrew R. Friedman.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website
Division of Labor in the Computer Field
Throughout the 1960s there was intense academic debate about the effects of automation, particularly as represented by the computer, on the labor process. Bourgeois economists and sociologists,while admitting that automation frequently reduced skills among many kinds of workers, pointed to the growing employment in the computer industry itself as a bright spot for labor. Many of the new jobs in this growing field were categorized as technical and…
Division of Labor in the Computer Field
Throughout the 1960s there was intense academic debate about the effects of automation, particularly as represented by the computer, on the labor process. Bourgeois economists and sociologists,while admitting that automation frequently reduced skills among many kinds of workers, pointed to the growing employment in the computer industry itself as a bright spot for labor. Many of the new jobs in this growing field were categorized as technical and…
The Forest and the Trees
"By now, these trends have created an 'industrial reserve army,' to borrow a term from Karl Marx—so large that a quite extraordinary and prolonged surge in output would be required to put all its members to full-time, well-paid work." —Time, November 22, 1993This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review websi…
Division of Labor in the Computer Field
Throughout the 1960s there was intense academic debate about the effects of automation, particularly as represented by the computer, on the labor process. Bourgeois economists and sociologists,while admitting that automation frequently reduced skills among many kinds of workers, pointed to the growing employment in the computer industry itself as a bright spot for labor. Many of the new jobs in this growing field were categorized as technical and…
Resistance and Accomodation
Review of Industry and Labor, Class Struggle at Work and Monopoly Capitalism by Andrew R. Friedman.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website
The head and the heart
In recent years there has been a good deal of healthy experimentation with system development methods and work organization, particularly within Scandinavia. This paper attempts to go further into the questions of the development and use of computer systems by using a gender analysis of the issues. Specifically, it examines the organization of labor and patterns of communication used in developing computer systems. It suggests that the use of gen…
Zen and the art of teaching systems development
There has been a great deal written about curriculum for teaching systems development, but very little said about the methods and practices of the teaching process itself. This article, in the form of an open letter to colleagues, addresses itself to the problems and experiences we have had in teaching systems development. Specifically, it focuses on the contradiction between education and experience and suggests some metaphors and methods for be…
The Forest and the Trees
"By now, these trends have created an 'industrial reserve army,' to borrow a term from Karl Marx—so large that a quite extraordinary and prolonged surge in output would be required to put all its members to full-time, well-paid work." —Time, November 22, 1993This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review websi…
The Times They Are A’Changing
Computer information systems, like systems of work organisation, are designed. Sometimes the designers are computer systems analysts working for the same company for which they are developing information systems, developing for example new inventory control programs. At other times the designers may be consultants or outside vendors who develop systems for the general public such as general accounting packages. Whatever the method of system devel…
On Twenty-Five Years With Braverman's Labor and Monopoly Capital (or, How Did Control and Coordination of Labor Get Into the Software So Quickly?)
I was extremely pleased to have the opportunity to read, once again, Braverman's Labor and Monopoly Capital and to reflect on the last twenty-five years. While the years seem to gallop now, I want to try in this brief time period to capture a few moments and reflections and share them with you.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this…
Introduction
To system designers, the people who use computers are awkwardly called "users," a muddy term that unfortunately tends to focus on the people sitting in front of a screen rather than on the actual work people are doing. The word lumps all kinds of workplace activity together implicitly putting the computer in focus and treating people as a blurred background. Although the identification of user issues now dominates the computer management and syst…
Design at Work
Contents: J. Greenbaum, M. Kyng, Preface: Memories of the Past. J. Greenbaum, M. Kyng, Introduction: Situated Design. Part I:Reflecting on Work Practice. L. Bannon, From Human Factors to Human Actors: The Role of Psychology and Human-Computer Interaction Studies in System Design. E. Wynn, Taking Practice Seriously. L.A. Suchman, R.H. Trigg, Understanding Practice: Video as a Medium for Reflection and Design. P.B. Andersen, B. Holmqvist, Language,…
Computer Science (6 works) · Engineering (6 works) · Work (physics) (5 works) · Economic history (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Political Economy and Marxism (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Artificial Intelligence (2 works) · Business (2 works)