The big evidence of what I am saying was the wave of plantclosings and runaway shops, the migration and mobility of plants in the 1980's. - Just in time delivery from thousands of miles away. This seems obviously a reorganization of production and the "point of production " to me.
I will look for more of the materials relevant to this. Somebody mentioned Shaiken. I am not an expert and I never wrote the paper I planned years ago beyond drafts. From your "card" , you can probably get evidences of what I am saying as well or better than I (if what I hypothesize is true ). However, I could contact the UAW research dept. if we really pursue this. There is a book by Mike Parker of Solidarity on the team concept.
The rank and file workers are not being trained as computer engineers. I'm pretty sure of that. And robots have not taken over or anything.
I look forward to your next post.
Charles
>>> Les Schaffer <godzilla at netmeg.net> 05/05 5:15 PM >>>
>>>>> ">" == Charles Brown <charlesb at CNCL.ci.detroit.mi.us> writes:
>> My
>> main point is that the whole locus of plantworkers' lives, work
>> and home, is scattered compared to before - From the city to
>> the suburbs,from the North to the South, and from the
>> U.S. overseas. This , I hypothesize, undermines
>> collectivity.
okay. but your specific examples a.) workers cars now parked inside gates and b.) locating large plants in rural areas, made it clearer to me what you're getting at.
>> I have no specific evidence now on keeping workers from computer/CAD
>> systems. In fact there is a lot of emphasis on computer
>> training in joint labor/management projects (yuk).
do you know what the main function of this training is? is it the passing of manufacturing specifications and instructions from engineering and management down to the workers or somehting else?
>> Training and
>> jobs are two different things, but I think there is rank and
>> file usage of computers.
>> I will look for more evidence on this if you want.
yeah. i'm interested. i will write some more after work this evening or tmw re/ computers, the web, and the workplace.
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