CAD—The‘Taylorisation’of drawing office work?
- 1 March 1989
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in New Technology, Work and Employment
- Vol. 4 (1) , 27-39
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-005x.1989.tb00101.x
Abstract
CAD has been described as a‘Trojan horse’through which drawing office work will be deskilled. This article rebuts the crude Tayloris‐ation thesis which underlines such views and offers an alternative analysis of the effects of CAD.Keywords
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