The Effect of New Technology in the Engineering Industry: Cases of Control and Constraint

Fiona M. Wilson and David A. Buchanan
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Fiona M. Wilson: Manchester Business School Booth Street West MANCHESTER M15 6BP
David A. Buchanan: Glasgow Business School 57 Southpark Avenue GLASGOW G12 8LF

Work, Employment & Society, 1988, vol. 2, issue 3, 366-380

Abstract: The major concern in this paper is to examine the effect of computer numerical control on skill. The findings from research in three companies demonstrate that in the engineering industry, technical change can have both positive and negative effects on the utilisation of skill, and thus on levels of skill in the industry. The experience of technical change, whether positive or negative, is shared among groups of workers. Technical change potentially poses a threat to turners' skill and so they will defend those common interests in the face of that change.

Date: 1988
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DOI: 10.1177/0950017088002003006

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