Deskilling and reskilling within the labour process: The case of computer integrated manufacturing

International Journal of Production Economics

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 317-324

  Agnew, Andrew ^a   Forrester, Paul ^b   Hassard, John ^b   Procter, Stephen ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CIM; Deskiling Reskilling; Shopfloor operators; Supervisors; Work organisation

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; SUPERVISORY PERSONNEL; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER;

DESKILLING; RESKILLING; WORK ORGANISATION;

COMPUTER INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING;

EID: 0031248749     PISSN: 09255273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-5273(97)00092-3     Document Type: Article

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