Unions and Technology Adoption: A Qualitative Analysis of the Use of Real-Time Control Systems in U.S. Coal Firms.
Part of a special section on technological change and employment conditions in traditionally heavily unionized industries. The writers present a qualitative analysis of the impact of unionization on the adoption of a new technology in coal mining, specifically, the application of real-time control...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Labor Research Vol. 23; no. 4; pp. 615 - 631 |
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Springer Science & Business Media B.V.
Fall 2002
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| Sumario: | Part of a special section on technological change and employment conditions in traditionally heavily unionized industries. The writers present a qualitative analysis of the impact of unionization on the adoption of a new technology in coal mining, specifically, the application of real-time control systems technology to automated mining engineering equipment. Their findings reveal that unions may represent a barrier to the adoption and use of new technologies, implying that further scrutiny of the relationship between union activity and technological change is required. |
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