Technology, culture and craft: Job tasks and quality realities

New Technology, Work and Employment

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 123-135

  Conti, Robert F ^a   Warner, Malcolm ^b  

^a Bryant College   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DE-SKILLING; INDUSTRIAL ORGANISATION; JAPANESE APPROACH; MANUFACTURING;

UK;

EID: 0031410213     PISSN: 02681072     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-005X.00029     Document Type: Article

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