In The Age Of The Smart Machine The Future Of Work And Power

by Zuboff, Shoshana

• ISBN13: 9780465032112
• ISBN10: 0465032117
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1989-10-02
• Publisher: Basic Books

Summary

A noted Harvard social scientist provides the most complete and important book to date on how today's advanced computer technology fundamentally changes the nature of work and power. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Shoshana Zuboff is Associate Professor at the Harvard Business School

Table of Contents

Preface	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xvii
Introduction: Dilemmas of Transformation in the Age of the Smart Machine	p. 3
Knowledge and Computer-Mediated Work	p. 17
The Laboring Body: Suffering and Skill in Production Work	p. 19
The Abstraction of Industrial Work	p. 58
The White-Collar Body in History	p. 97
Office Technology as Exile and Integration	p. 124
Mastering the Electronic Text	p. 174
Authority: The Spiritual Dimension of Power	p. 219
What Was Managerial Authority?	p. 224
The Dominion of the Smart Machine	p. 245
The Limits of Hierarchy in an Informated Organization	p. 285
Technique: The Material Dimension of Power	p. 311
The Information Panopticon	p. 315
Panoptic Power and the Social Text	p. 362
Conclusion: Managing the Informated Organization	p. 387
The Scope of Information Technology in the Modern Workplace	p. 415
Notes on Field-Research Methodology	p. 423
Notes	p. 430
Index	p. 459
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