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Dados vol. 29 n. 2 Rio de Janeiro 1986
Resumo
The author seeks to avoid one-sided theses on the ''ravages of progress" and the "scientific and technological revolution" in his evaluation of new social potentials arising from the passage from mechanization to automatization-informatization. In his opinion, these fresh potentials have their origins in human liberation from the tasks of manipulation and direct supervision of machine-tools, tasks which are henceforward the object of the revolution in micro-electronics. Nevertheless, the newer jobs of control, programming, maintenance and of management, in particular, are now required of operators. From the workshop to the research office, the treatment of information and communication have gradually become the key human functions. Yet, at the same time, the economic, capitalist and trade standard for measuring work productivity continues to favor the economy over human beings; even though microelectronics would permit these priorities to be reversed, basing economic growth on an economical use of material capital (thrift in the consumption of resources, reduction of wastes, increased usage of machines etc.). The evolution of highly contradictory processes may thus be observed; marked, on the one hand, by the displacement of human functions toward more indirect types of endeavor that combine material and symbolic work; and on the otber, by new forms in the division of labor, and the opposition between a qualified elite and a mass of unqualified operators. Once more, the outcome of these processes shall depend on the capacity of the wage-earners concerned to intervene in the technological choices and type of automatization implemented.
Da Revolução Industrial à Revolução da Informática
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