Industrial Depopulation: The Politics of Automation

Abstract

As computerised manufacture merges into computer integrated manufacture, with expert computer systems controlling other expert systems, where do human beings come in? Are they gaining or losing? Are they drifting into a catch‐22 situation? Maybe the time will come when they are merely spectators. The mushrooming progress of technology is reflected on, who is gaining and who is losing are questioned and suggested plan of action to keep progress – at least technological progress – on the rails is presented.

Citation

Chater, R. (1989), "Industrial Depopulation: The Politics of Automation", Industrial Management & Data Systems, Vol. 89 No. 3, pp. 7-11. https://doi.org/10.1108/02635578910132783