The Effect of Technology on Alienation from Work
Dados Bibliográficos
| AUTOR(ES) | |
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| AFILIAÇÃO(ÕES) | University of Maryland School of Medicine, Columbia University Irving Medical Center |
| ANO | 1982 |
| TIPO | Artigo |
| PERIÓDICO | Work and Occupations |
| ISSN | 0730-8884 |
| E-ISSN | 1552-8464 |
| EDITORA | SAGE Publications |
| DOI | 10.1177/0730888482009001003 |
| CITAÇÕES | 11 |
| ADICIONADO EM | 2025-08-18 |
| MD5 |
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Resumo
This article presents new evidence on the effect of technology on alienation from work that is pertinent to Blauner's inverted U-curve hypothesis. One data set permits comparative analysis at the organizational level and addresses a gap in the literature on worker alienation because most research uses individual level data grouped by industrial categories. This organizational level approach is applied to individual level data on retrained union printers to analyze the impact of automation on the work of skilled craftsmen. Humanization of work in postindustrial society is examined. The relationship between technological advance and alienation is more negatively linear than curvilinear.