Author: Canada. Women's Bureau Publisher: ISBN: Category : Communication Languages : en Pages : 196
Book Description
Conference report on the impact of microelectronics technological change on the work environment, internationally and with particular reference to Canada - discusses the development of EDP and telecommunications, effects on unemployment, woman workers and office workers, labour relations, etc. Photographs. Conference held in Ottawa 1981 Mar 29 to 31.
Author: Leslie Grayson Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 1468482580 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 92
Book Description
Silicon chip technology; microprocessor technology; information technology; or quite simply new technology. These are some of the names representing the microelectronics revolution depending upon the audience being addressed by speaker or writer. No previous new industrial development has caused such widespread publicity and discussion amongst users and researchers as the new technology. Concern is being expressed about the effects of new technology on employment, job satisfaction, social life, leisure activities and the economics of commerce and industry. The late 70s saw many doom-laden predictions of those effects but by 1983 both management and trade unions were taking a more objective view of the social and economic impacts, and many correspondents now see the new technology as a means of opening up new industries and overcoming the effects of world recessions. The "chip" has involved the factory floor, the office, the supermarket and the home. Electronic funds transfer, electronic shopping, microelectronic domestic appliances, word processors and microprocessor-controlled machinery mean that the new technology has pervaded all aspects of social and economic life, and the developed countries are now coming to accept it as part of society as a whole. Inevitably the flood of literature on the social and economic impacts of new technology has been overwhelming. Unfortunately the quality of information and arguments propagated at conferences, in journal papers and research reports has indicated that there has been little quantifiable evidence available on the effects of these impacts.
Author: Science Council of Canada. Committee on Computers and Communication Publisher: The Council ISBN: Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 86
Author: J. Berting Publisher: Elsevier ISBN: 1483146537 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 276
Book Description
The Socio-Economic Impact of Microelectronics contains papers presented at an international conference on socio-economic problems and potentialities of the application of micro-electronics held in Zandvoort, the Netherlands, in September 1979. Organized into eight sections, this book begins with the technological evaluation of microelectronics. Subsequent sections focus on the social economic and political consequences of the widespread use of microelectronics; opportunities and problems for socialist countries brought about by microelectronics technology; effects of microelectronics on developing countries; as well as problems connected with industrial relations and organization of work. The influence of the technology on political/economic, epistemological, ethical/moral, and esthetic values and a broad concept of informatics introducing the notions of living and non-living environments as well as of human, non-human, constructed, natural, and abstract systems are explained. The last section contains the conclusions of the chairman of the conference on the application of microelectronics.
Author: Canada. Women's Bureau
Author: International Labour Office. Central Library and Documentation Branch
Author: Ontario. Ministry of Labour. Library
Author: Leslie Grayson
Author: Patti Schom-Moffatt
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Author: Canada. Secretary of State