INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY AND WORKER INTEGRATION IN THE ORGANIZATION.
This paper is based on a sample of 1491 Canadian manual workers from three different industries-printing, automobile, and oil. These industries were selected to represent three basic types of sociotechnical systems that have been identified in recent literature-craft, mass and continuous process pro...
| Publicado en: | American Sociological Review Vol. 35; no. 6; pp. 1028 - 1040 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
Dec70
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