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Work for all
Books
680
food products company (pages 195-208); control information in a hospital (pages 23 l-233); and control information in a Mexican manufacturing company (pages 235-245).
0 0
Perhaps
Checkland,
colleagues
could
Wilson
and their
now go on to produce
a
book which would be short, would be aimed solely at the user of systems ideas,
would keep theoretical discussion to a minimum, and would include some brief but pointed examples of systems practice.
Notes and references 1. P. B. Checkland, Systems Thinking, Systems Practice Uohn Wiley, 1981). 2. Robert E. Machol, INTERFACES, 13(l), February 1983.
No need for tragic waste Clive Jenkins
Paths
to Paradise:
from Andre
Liberation
Gorz
120 + viii pages, f3.50 1985) Work Sean
on the
Work (London,
UK,
Pluto,
for All Cooney
127 + iv 1985)
pages
Towards
a
(Dublin,
Eire,
Policy
of
Inforecast, Part-time
Employment Jean-Pierre 56 pages European 1984)
Jallade (Maastricht, Centre for
A New
View
W.
Martin
H.
39 pages European 1984)
The Work
Netherlands, and Society,
of Leisure and S. Mason
(Maastricht, Centre for
The Work
Netherlands, and Society,
The real rate of unemployment in Britain today is about 20%. 18-24 year olds, despite 130000 temporary jobs provided by Community Programme schemes, account for one-third of the total unemployed and among this age Clive Jenkins is General Secretary of the Association of Scientific, Technical and Managerial Staffs, 79 Camden Road, London NW1 9ES, UK.
group one-third of those unemployed have been without work for more than a year. The cause of this problem is not the introduction of new technology but the policies being pursued by the present UK government. But any proposals for dealing with the effects of the introduction of new technology has to take as its starting point our present economic position. It is common ground among these four books that new technology provides an opportunity for changing life styles with fuller and richer lives for all. This makes an interesting contrast with the recently expressed views of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) on the changing organization of work. The CBI see a two-class workforce developing. In what they call the primary market will be highly trained, multi-skilled and mobile employees. Supporting services will be provided by the much larger market where security, secondary prospects and remuneration will be and where part-time work, poorer temporary employment and fixed-term common. But will be contracts employees in the primary sector will not be much better off either. They will see no improvement in their hours of work
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680
food products company (pages 195-208); control information in a hospital (pages 23 l-233); and control information in a Mexican manufacturing company (pages 235-245).
0 0
Perhaps
Checkland,
colleagues
could
Wilson
and their
now go on to produce
a
book which would be short, would be aimed solely at the user of systems ideas,
would keep theoretical discussion to a minimum, and would include some brief but pointed examples of systems practice.
Notes and references 1. P. B. Checkland, Systems Thinking, Systems Practice Uohn Wiley, 1981). 2. Robert E. Machol, INTERFACES, 13(l), February 1983.
No need for tragic waste Clive Jenkins
Paths
to Paradise:
from Andre
Liberation
Gorz
120 + viii pages, f3.50 1985) Work Sean
on the
Work (London,
UK,
Pluto,
for All Cooney
127 + iv 1985)
pages
Towards
a
(Dublin,
Eire,
Policy
of
Inforecast, Part-time
Employment Jean-Pierre 56 pages European 1984)
Jallade (Maastricht, Centre for
A New
View
W.
Martin
H.
39 pages European 1984)
The Work
Netherlands, and Society,
of Leisure and S. Mason
(Maastricht, Centre for
The Work
Netherlands, and Society,
The real rate of unemployment in Britain today is about 20%. 18-24 year olds, despite 130000 temporary jobs provided by Community Programme schemes, account for one-third of the total unemployed and among this age Clive Jenkins is General Secretary of the Association of Scientific, Technical and Managerial Staffs, 79 Camden Road, London NW1 9ES, UK.
group one-third of those unemployed have been without work for more than a year. The cause of this problem is not the introduction of new technology but the policies being pursued by the present UK government. But any proposals for dealing with the effects of the introduction of new technology has to take as its starting point our present economic position. It is common ground among these four books that new technology provides an opportunity for changing life styles with fuller and richer lives for all. This makes an interesting contrast with the recently expressed views of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) on the changing organization of work. The CBI see a two-class workforce developing. In what they call the primary market will be highly trained, multi-skilled and mobile employees. Supporting services will be provided by the much larger market where security, secondary prospects and remuneration will be and where part-time work, poorer temporary employment and fixed-term common. But will be contracts employees in the primary sector will not be much better off either. They will see no improvement in their hours of work
FUTURES December 1995