In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and PowerA Harvard social scientist documents the pitfalls and promise of computerized technology in business life, warning that advanced information technologies present us with a fateful choice: to continue automation at the risk of robbing workers of gratification and self image, or to informate and empower ordinary working people to make critical and collaborative judgments. |
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| Title | In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power Heinemann business paperbacks |
| Author | Shoshana Zuboff |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Heinemann Professional, 1988 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Aug 23, 2007 |
| ISBN | 0434924865, 9780434924868 |
| Length | 468 pages |
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