TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jones,Bryn
TI  - Forcing the future: cybernation and societal institutions 
SN  - 0511002505
AV  - TS157 .J66 1997eb
U1  - 670.42/7 20
PY  - 1997///
CY  - New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Production management
KW  - Data processing
KW  - Flexible manufacturing systems
KW  - TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING
KW  - Industrial Engineering
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Flexibele productiesystemen
KW  - gtt
KW  - Productiemanagement
KW  - Dataprocessing
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 272-289) and index; Pt. 1. The workshop versus the factory -- pt. 2. Technologies of control -- pt. 3. Cybernation and flexibility
N2  - Is computerised production transforming work roles, as recent debates about flexible specialisation and post-Fordist manufacturing suggest? This book focuses on the key case of metalworking batch production in Britain, Italy, Japan and the USA. Looking at technological, political and social developments from a comparative perspective, it suggests that comprehensive factory principles never fully replaced workshop organisation. Drawing on empirical case studies of flexible manufacturing systems, Bryn Jones offers a new distinction between the bureaucratic bias of Taylorism and the product standardisation approach of Fordism, and questions whether computerised production is transcending Fordism. Instead of the often predicted models of deskilled, centrally controlled work, or a decentralised craft renaissance, he shows a greater likelihood of national variations between factory and workshop principles continuing into the contemporary age of computerisation
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