Management of Technical Change. Automation in the UK and USA since 1950
Details:
- Author(s) Booth, Alan
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2006
- Pages 287pp
- Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
- Place Published Basingstoke
Topics:
- Name Production of goods & services - methods & organisation
- Name Comparative international studies
- Name Information: creation, collection & processing
- Name Productivity
- Name Transfer of technology, processes, management techniques, etc
- Name Service industries issues
- Name Government intervention exc legislation & regulation
Countries:
- Japan
- United States
Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
- Visit British Library's website
Groups:
Notes:
Examines the management of technical change in manufacturing and services in Britain and America since 1950, most notably automation. Includes much about motor vehicle production and banking services industries and sheds light on the relevance of machine tools and computation. Also labour management systems - Fordism, Taylorism, etc. Has sections: 'Political economy of technical change'; 'World roles and international technology transfer'; 'National politics of productivity and technical change'; 'Automation in engineering'; 'Continuous flow industries - feedback control and computerisation'; 'Office automation - computers, clerical work and management systems'; 'Bank automation'; 'Japanisation'