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Over micro-elektronica
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ISBN: 901202871X Year: 1980 Publisher: 's-Gravenhage Staatsuitgeverij

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Technical change and employment
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ISBN: 0903804557 Year: 1979 Publisher: London Pinter


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Science, technology and the labour process : Marxist studies
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ISBN: 0906336201 090633621X Year: 1981 Publisher: London CSE books


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Application of new technologies, methods and approaches to logistics
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ISBN: 0861763882 Year: 1988 Volume: vol. 18, number 6, 1988 Publisher: Bradford MCB University Press

The control revolution. : Technological and economic origins of the information society.
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ISBN: 9780674169869 0674169867 0674169859 9780674169852 Year: 1986 Publisher: Cambridge (Mass.): Harvard university press

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Why do we find ourselves living in an Information Society? How did the collection, processing, and communication of information come to play an increasingly important role in advanced industrial countries relative to the roles of matter and energy? And why is this change recent-or is it? James Beniger traces the origin of the Information Society to major economic and business crises of the past century. In the United States, applications of steam power in the early 1800s brought a dramatic rise in the speed, volume, and complexity of industrial processes, making them difficult to control. Scores of problems arose: fatal train wrecks, misplacement of freight cars for months at a time, loss of shipments, inability to maintain high rates of inventory turnover. Inevitably the Industrial Revolution, with its ballooning use of energy to drive material processes, required a corresponding growth in the exploitation of information: the Control Revolution. Between the 1840s and the 1920s came most of the important information-processing and communication technologies still in use today: telegraphy, modern bureaucracy, rotary power printing, the postage stamp, paper money, typewriter, telephone, punch-card processing, motion pictures, radio, and television. Beniger shows that more recent developments in microprocessors, computers, and telecommunications are only a smooth continuation of this Control Revolution. Along the way he touches on many fascinating topics: why breakfast was invented, how trademarks came to be worth more than the companies that own them, why some employees wear uniforms, and whether time zones will always be necessary. The book is impressive not only for the breadth of its scholarship but also for the subtlety and force of its argument. It will be welcomed by sociologists, economists, historians of science and technology, and all curious in general.

How Revolutionary Was the Digital Revolution? : National Responses, Market Transitions, and Global Technology
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ISBN: 0804753342 0804753350 9780804753357 Year: 2006 Publisher: Stanford Stanford University Press

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How do high wage countries stay rich in a global digital economy? How Revolutionary was the Digital Revolution constructs a framework for analyzing the international digital era: one that examines the ability of political actors to innovate and experiment in spite of, or perhaps because of, the constraints posed by digital technology.

Information technology and society : a reader
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ISBN: 0803979819 0803979800 9780803979802 9780803979819 Year: 1995 Publisher: London : Sage,

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