The detroit of the new economy: The changing workplace, manufacturing workers and the labor movement in silicon valley

Journal of the Association for History and Computing

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2002, Pages

  Lüthje, Boy ^a,b  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Institut fur Sozialforschung   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPERATIONS RESEARCH; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

INDUSTRIAL ARCHITECTURE; INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATIONS; INDUSTRIAL POLICY; MANUFACTURING OPERATIONS;

INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS;

EID: 3042643910     PISSN: 19375905     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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