'Plus ca change, plus la meme chose' : researching and theorising the new, new technologies

Howcroft, Debra and Taylor, Philip (2014) 'Plus ca change, plus la meme chose' : researching and theorising the new, new technologies. New Technology, Work and Employment, 29 (1). pp. 1-8. ISSN 0268-1072 (https://doi.org/10.1111/ntwe.12026)

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Abstract

Waves of ‘new technology’ have typically been accompanied by widespread speculation regarding their economic and social impacts. Most notably, in the late 1970s and early 1980s, computerisation and the microchip prompted cataclysmic predictions regarding their effects for employment. For example, the World Centre for Computer Sciences and Human Resources estimated that, by the end of the 1980s, as many as 50 million people would be displaced by new information and communication technologies (ICTs) (Braham, 1985, cited in Boreham et al., 2007: 3). In the aftermath of speculation on the ‘Information Revolution’, whether dystopian (Jenkins and Sherman, 1979) or utopian (Toffler, 1970), New Technology, Work and Employment was established as corrective and as a forum for theoretically informed, empirically grounded research on the impact of technological developments on work, employment and workplace social relations. In place of grand theorising, then, the journal set itself the more prosaic but robust social scientific objective of describing, mapping and analysing emerging realities.

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  • Item type:Article
    ID code:49060
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    20 March 2014
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    Notes:This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Howcroft, D., & Taylor, P. (2014). 'Plus ca change, plus la meme chose': researching and theorising the new, new technologies. New Technology, Work and Employment, 29(1), 1-8, which has been published in final form at http:dx.doi.org/10.1111/ntwe.12026 This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving.
    Subjects:Social Sciences > Industries. Land use. Labor > Management. Industrial Management
    Department:Strathclyde Business School > Work, Organisation and Employment
    Depositing user: Pure Administrator
    Date deposited:19 Aug 2014 13:23
    Last modified:11 Nov 2024 11:25
    URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/49060
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