What Machines Can't Do: Politics and Technology in the Industrial Enterprise

by Robert J. Thomas

Virtually every manufacturing company has plans for an automated "factory of the future." But Robert J. Thomas argues that smart machines may not hold the key to an industrial renaissance. In this provocative and enlightening book, he takes us inside four successful manufacturing enterprises to reveal the social and political dynamics that are an integral part of new production technology. His interviews with nearly 300 individuals, from top corporate...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520081315
• ISBN13: 9780520081314
• Release Date: March 1994
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"