Technology and Labour

J. Wilczynski
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J. Wilczynski: Royal Military College, Duntroon

Chapter 6 in Comparative Industrial Relations, 1983, pp 116-132 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Technological change has been a labour issue ever since the Industrial Revolution. It has also come to command the attention of Marxists who have added their own ideological interpretation to it. Marx and Engels (in German Ideology, written in 1845–46) stressed that the different stages in the development of societies were essentially determined by the techniques of production, that is, what really matters historically is not so much what output is produced but how it is produced. Insisting on this interpretation, they distinguished six ‘socio-economic formations’ — primitive communism, slavery, feudalism, capitalism, socialism and (full) communism.

Keywords: Technological Change; Labour Productivity; Trade Union; Technological Progress; Socialist Country (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1983
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-06407-6_6

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