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The Reconquest of Time
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1983
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EducationPhilosophy Of TechnologyTechnological UnemploymentSocial SciencesProductivityTemporal DynamicPrior Technical RevolutionsTemporalityIntellectual HistoryMicro-electronic Revolution DiffersMachine SystemsWorkforce ProductivityDesignSkilled WorkersChanging WorkforceTechnological ChangeIndustrial DesignWorkforce DevelopmentAutomationTemporal ComplexityScience And Technology StudiesTime StudiesTechnologyTime Perception
Abstract The micro-electronic revolution differs from prior technical revolutions in one essential point: it does not merely abolish the most qualified intellectual and manual jobs; it also abolishes the repetitive tasks of unskilled workers (OS) in the industrial and tertiary sectors. To stress the deskilling entailed in this revolution is to mask the specific import of the current change. For, though it can, in certain situations, be used to increase domination and control over workers, this change is not merely a new ultrasophisticated form of Taylorism. In contrast with Taylorism, the main objective is not to break the real power of skilled workers (OP).