Society for Philosophy and Technology Quarterly Electronic Journal · 1999 · 303 citations · 0 references
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The notion of the socio-technical system was created in the context of labor studies by the Tavistock Institute in London about the end of the fifties (Emery/Trist, 1960). During the first decades of our century, labor studies had been largely concerned with the adaptation of humans to the organizational and