It looks like the age of the mass is behind us and the age of the individual is upon us. The chasm that now exists between new people and old organiz….

The history of work has been, in part, the history of the worker's body. Production depended on what the body could accomplish with strength and skil….

In diminishing the role of the worker's body in the labor process, industrial technology has also tended to diminish the importance of the worker. In….

Technological change defines the horizon of our material world as it shapes the limiting conditions of what is possible and what is barely imaginable….

Awareness requires a rupture with the world we take for granted; then old categories of experience are called into question and revised..

Labor came to humanity with the fall from grace and was at best a penitential sacrifice enabling purity through humiliation. Laborwas toil, distress,….

Computerization brings about an essential change in the way the worker can know the world and, with it, a crisis of confidence inthe possibility of c….

Learning has replaced control as the fundamental role of management..

Technology makes the world a new place..

Computer mediation seems to bathe action in a more conditional light: perhaps it happened; perhaps it didn't. Without the layeredrichness of direct s….

Earlier generations of machines decreased the complexity of tasks. In contrast, information technologies can increase the intellectual content of wor….

Skilled workers historically have been ambivalent toward automation, knowing that the bodies it would augment or replace were theoccasion for both th….

My teenage children watched Senator Clinton on the Today Show, mouths agape. They attended our local caucus with me and saw hundreds of our friends a….

Technology represents intelligence systematically applied to the problem of the body. It functions to amplify and surpass the organic limits of the b….

I've lived in a preindustrial (rural Argentina) as well as an industrial world. You experience a different sense of time in a community that works th….

Authority is the spiritual dimension of power because it depends upon faith in a system of meaning that decrees the necessity of the hierarchical ord….

Every century or so, fundamental changes in the nature of consumption create new demand patterns that existing enterprises can't meet..

Life is good when you live from your roots. Your values are a critical source of energy, enthusiasm, and direction. Work is meaningful and fun when i….

If the technology cannot shoulder the entire burden of strategic change, it nevertheless can set into motion a series of dynamicsthat present an impo….

The civilizing process has increased the distance between behavior and the impulse life of the animal body..

As information technology restructures the work situation, it abstracts thought from action..