Bargaining & Technological Change

Bargaining & Technological Change

One of the most critical influences on the future of industrial relations in Britain will be that of new technology. The process of change to an information society, the robotic factory, or paperless office is already underway and whatever the outcome of the process, it is in the workplace that the impact will be experienced most directly. Trade unions are the largest body representing people who will be affected, and a major part of the trade union approach to the new technology is the negotiation of change at workplace. The new technology is the negotiation of change at the workplace. The new technology has therefore sprung up, and the indications are that it will be a major factor in the way new technology is accepted, or otherwise in the 1980s.

Neil Ash

Workers’ Educational Association (WEA)

1984

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