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Computerization and Work

A Reader on Social Aspects of Computerization

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1985

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Editors:
  1. Ulrich Briefs

    1. WSI/DGB, Düsseldorf, Germany

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  2. John Kjaer

    1. Royal Chartered Fire Ins. Co., Kopenhagen, Germany

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  3. Jean-Louis Rigal

    1. Sceaux, France

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Part of the book series: IFIP State-of-the-Art Reports (IFIP)

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Table of contents (17 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-VIII
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  2. Section I

    1. Information Technology and Work in the Present Society

      • Ulrich Briefs, John Kjaer, Jean-Louis Rigal
      Pages 1-2

    2. Computers — A Gift of Fire

      • Clavin C. Gotlieb
      Pages 3-16

    3. Information Technologies and Social Power

      • Wilhelm Steinmüller
      Pages 17-33

    4. The Impact of Information Processing on the Working Class

      • Ulrich Briefs
      Pages 34-50

  3. Section II

    1. The Major Specific Impacts of Computerization on Work

      • Ulrich Briefs, John Kjaer, Jean-Louis Rigal
      Pages 51-52

    2. Computerization and Employment

      • Jean-Louis Rigai
      Pages 53-70

    3. Information Technology and Skills: Problems in Research and Politics

      • Herbert Kubicek
      Pages 71-93

    4. Computerized Information Systems in Personnel

      • Wolfgang Kilian
      Pages 94-104

  4. Section III

    1. Some Prerequisites for Systems Design in the Interest of the Workers

      • Ulrich Briefs, John Kjaer, Jean-Louis Rigal
      Pages 105-105

    2. Individual and Social Implications of Data Processing and Office Automation in Service Industries

      • Niels Bjørn Andersen, John Kjaer
      Pages 106-119

    3. Participation in Technical Change

      • Jostein Fjalestad
      Pages 120-131

    4. Computerization and Education

      • Franz Ofner
      Pages 132-141

  5. Section IV

    1. Approaches in System Design for a Defense of Human Work

      • Ulrich Briefs, John Kjaer, Jean-Louis Rigal
      Pages 142-143

    2. Organizational Consequences of the Use of EDP — How to Design Information Technology

      • Hanns-Wilhelm Heibey, Bernd Lutterbeck, Michael Töpel
      Pages 144-158

    3. Humanizing Computerized Information Systems

      • Theodor D. Sterling
      Pages 159-167

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 172-172
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About this book

This reader contains contributions referring to one of the most urgent problems in systems design: the effects of computerization on human work and approaches to ameliorate systems design in order to create better conditions for living human work in a computerized world. Of course the choice of papers has been operated somewhat arbitrarily. It primarily reflects the work of IFIP's Working Group 9.1. "Compu­ ters and Work" and of some of its members. The papers were compiled aiming at focussing on very material pro­ blems in the field of "Computers and Work". They substantively re­ flect in several points the discussions and the concern of the Wor­ king Group. Some conclusions from a series of workshops held from 1980 onward by the Working Group are likewise contained and directed to the IFIP community and to other parties concerned. The reader inserts itself into a rather extended line of activities of the Working Group: in addition to contributions to the two IFIP Working Conferences on Human Choice and Computers held in 1974 and in 1979 (proceedings published by North Holland) a recent IFIP Wor­ king Conference on Systems Design For, With and By the Users (held in September 82, proceedings published in March 83 by North Holland) and a joint TC3/TC9 Working Conference on Education for Systems De­ signer/User Co-operation (proceedings to be published by end 84).

Editors and Affiliations

  • WSI/DGB, Düsseldorf, Germany

    Ulrich Briefs

  • Royal Chartered Fire Ins. Co., Kopenhagen, Germany

    John Kjaer

  • Sceaux, France

    Jean-Louis Rigal

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Computerization and Work

  • Book Subtitle: A Reader on Social Aspects of Computerization

  • Editors: Ulrich Briefs, John Kjaer, Jean-Louis Rigal

  • Series Title: IFIP State-of-the-Art Reports

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-70453-6

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1985

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-540-15367-2Published: 01 April 1985

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-70453-6Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 171

  • Topics: Computer Science, general, IT in Business

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