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Employment, Technology and Economic Needs: Theory, Evidence, and Public Policy
Authors: Hardcover, 363 pagesPublisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Publication Date: 1999-06 Reviews :
After more than twenty years of orthodox economic policy in Europe, the scourge of unemployment remains. This impressive book goes beyond the neo-classical theory of employment and develops sound policy guidelines to tackle the global problem of unemployment. Employment, Technology and Economic Needs provides the latest thinking on issues of employment, unemployment and economic policy. The book is explicitly interdisciplinary in scope and international in coverage, including European and US country case studies. Its authors include economists, management scientists, sociologists and economic geographers. Together they provide the most comprehensive analysis to date of the problems of unemployment and poor economic performance from a broadly institutional and evolutionary perspective. The book reports the latest academic research, while clearly documenting the implications for public policy. The authors discuss the effectiveness of policy prescriptions such as negative income taxes, the International Labour Organization agenda, a fiscal system based on eco-taxation, a reduction of working time and developing a 'corporatist' system as a means to develop employment opportunities. Written in an accessible style, this book will be vital reading for all those interested in the fields of employment, technology and macroeconomic and industrial policy. It will also be of interest to anyone concerned with economic policy issues and human welfare....
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People and change
Authors: Kenneth S Cooper.
Unknown Binding, 502 pages
Publisher: Silver Burdett
Publication Date: 1976
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The Second Media Age
Authors: Mark Poster. Hardcover, 220 pagesPublisher: Polity Pr Publication Date: 1995-07 Reviews :
This book examines the implications of new communication technologies in the light of the most recent work in social and cultural theory and argues that new developments in electronic media, such as the Internet and Virtual Reality, justify the designation of a "second media age"....
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The Social Significance of Telematics: An Essay on the Information Society (Pragmatics & Beyond, Vol 7)
Authors: Lars Qvortrup.
Paperback, 228 pages
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co
Publication Date: 1985-11
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The Information Gap: How Computers and Other New Communication Technologies Affect the Social Distribution of Power
Authors: Hardcover, 232 pagesPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA Publication Date: 1990-02-22 Reviews :
The computer and other new communication technologies have changed the way we live. However every technological innovation carries with it the potential to liberate or exclude various parts of our society, and the current information age seems to fragment and privatize access to the knowledge provided by the new technologies. Who is affected by the "information gap" and what is the role of communication technology in widening or closing it? These vital, complex questions are the subject of this special issue of the Journal of Communication--the noted computer-age forum for debate and scientific understanding. The Information Gap brings together articles, reports, and proposals from a broad variety of cross-disciplinary sources. The result is a comprehensive and enlightening overview that probes current trends in the social distribution of the new technologies, explores the obstacles to information equality, and shows how some social groups have embraced today's technological promise more than others. This special edition also provides commentary on entrenched institutional barriers that may contribute to the persistence of the information gap. This report will be of value to all readers interested in the impact of the computer age on today's society and the world of the future....
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Network Access Control - a Necessity as the “Doorman” Approach to Network Security Fails to Protect Enterprises from Costly Intrusions A growing need for Network Access Control is revealed through a recent survey of Chief Security Officers conducted by Vernier Networks. Despite growing security budgets intrusions continue. [PRWEB Jun 30, 2005]
Nanotech Battles Bird Flu Firms say their products could help detect the virus and slow its
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The Management of Technical Change: Automation in the UK and USA since 1950
Authors: Alan Booth. Hardcover, 288 pagesPublisher: Palgrave Macmillan Publication Date: 2007-01-09 Reviews :
This book examines the management of technical change in Britain and the USA in the years since 1945, focusing on the automation of manufacturing and office processes. The management of change is analysed within a political-economic and comparative framework. ...
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Digital Democracy: Issues of Theory and Practice
Authors: Hardcover, 240 pagesPublisher: Sage Publications Ltd Publication Date: 2000-11 Edition: 1 Reviews :
Digital Democracy offers an invaluable in-depth explanation of what issues of theory and application are most important to the emergence and development of computer-mediated communication systems for political purposes. It addresses how the Internet, and computer-mediated political communication are affecting democracy and focuses on the various theoretical and practical issues involved in digital democracy....
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Virtuality Check: Power Relations and Alternative Strategies in the Information Society
Authors: Francois Fortier. Hardcover, 160 pagesPublisher: Verso Publication Date: 2001-08 Reviews :
"Technologies are neither the naive product of disinterested science nor the deterministic bearers of social processes. They are shaped by existing social relations ...relations of exploitation and oppression, but also of resistance and solidarity. Much sweeping away of fantasies, mystification and scarecrows is needed if we are to uncover the foudations, trends, stakes, battles and consequences of the so-called electronic frontier and its new economy." - from the introduction Information and communications technologies (ICTs) and the new economy they herald are generally either glorified as unprecedented opportunities for post-industrial enfranchisement, or vilified as a mirage conjured up for their own ends by those who run the world. This book sets out to review the relationship between information technologies and society. It examines the development of ICTs, and explores the ways in which they are used to subjugate workers, manipulate consumers, and extend media monopolies and commercial control. Fortier argues that, in their predominant forms, ICTs do little more than polarise economic and political power in an anti-democratic fashion. Yet alternative uses of ICTs already exist and have been promoted by progressive social sectors for nearly two decades. Concluding with a study of these initiatives, Fortier shows how they are aimed at facilitating rather than obstructing democracy....
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Rural Households in Emerging Societies: Technology and Change in Sub-Saharan Africa
Authors: Hardcover, 262 pagesPublisher: Berg Publishers Publication Date: 1991-10-18 Reviews :
The constantly changing circumstances of rural life in sub-Saharan Africa have brought with them both successes and failures. The essays in this volume examine the various pressures and inducements to changing resource-use patterns faced by rural households, and explore the two-way causal relationship between technology and technological change on the one hand and other key elements of rural change - demographic, environmental, economic, social, and political - on the other. Contemporary approaches to the introduction of technical innovations are examined, and new approaches are proposed. Through case studies of particular communities, the wide-ranging impacts of past experiences are assessed, and the causes and consequences of indigenous initiatives are explored. ...
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Cultural Collisions: Postmodern Technoscience
Authors: Raphae Sassower. Hardcover, 156 pagesPublisher: Routledge Publication Date: 1995-09-25 Edition: 1 Reviews :
In Cultural Collisions Raphael Sassower brings postmodernism face to face with technoscience and considers the viability of public works, such as the Superconducting Supercollider, in a postmodern age. Contending that technoscientific projects are contingent upon economic and political support, and not simply upon their scientific feasibility, Sassower illuminates the cultural context of postmodern technoscience vis-a-vis an examination of postmodernism and the philosophy of late 20th century science....
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