三民網路書店 / 搜尋結果

Is computerised production transforming work roles, as recent debates about flexible specialisation and post-Fordist manufacturing suggest? This book focuses on the key case of metalworking batch production in Britain, Italy, Japan and the USA. Looking at technological, political and social developments from a comparative perspective, it suggests that comprehensive factory principles never fully replaced workshop organisation. Drawing on empirical case studies of flexible manufacturing systems, Bryn Jones offers a new distinction between the bureaucratic bias of Taylorism and the product standardisation approach of Fordism, and questions whether computerised production is transcending Fordism. Instead of the often predicted models of deskilled, centrally controlled work, or a decentralised craft renaissance, he shows a greater likelihood of national variations between factory and workshop principles continuing into the contemporary age of computerisation.

Citing today’s business corporation’s resemblance to past priestly/kingship castes of failed civilizations, which “dis-embedded” from the social relationship on which life was founded and from the nat

A critical and cohesive collection of interdisciplinary perspectives on Dramatherapy as it is being practiced, developed and advanced today. Unpicking the relationship between drama and therapy, explo

A critical and cohesive collection of interdisciplinary perspectives on Dramatherapy as it is being practiced, developed and advanced today. Unpicking the relationship between drama and therapy, explo

This book’s four main aims are to examine: firstly, why movements happened in the socio-historical context of sixties’ radicalism; secondly, its distinctive legacy of crucial, cultural, societal and p

This book’s four main aims are to examine: firstly, why movements happened in the socio-historical context of sixties’ radicalism; secondly, its distinctive legacy of crucial, cultural, societal and p

In this book for scholars, policy makers, and advanced students, social democracy is shown to be a better principle of social organization to replace markets. The contributors draw on Karl Polyani

Though neoliberalism has faced renewed challenges in recent years, it nonetheless remains the dominant ideology throughout much of the West. This book brings together a stellar group of social and pol