Technological Change and the Labour Process in New Zealand: A Synthesis

This paper draws together some of the common themes and summarises the key points which emerge from the industry case studies presented in this symposium on technological change.

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Towards the Automated Office: Technological Change and Office Work in the New Zealand Public Service

New Zealand Journal of Industrial Relations ◽

10.26686/nzjir.v9i3.3572 ◽

1970 ◽

Vol 9 (3) ◽

Author(s):

Paul K. Couchman

Keyword(s):

New Zealand ◽

Technological Change ◽

Public Service ◽

Control Strategies ◽

Political Process ◽

Office Work ◽

Labour Process ◽

Management Conflicts

This paper examines Braverman's theory of the labour process in relation to the historical transformation of office work in the New Zealand Public Service. It focuses upon two exclusively female occupations, those of typist and secretary. The paper also examines the range of control strategies available to management; conflicts between groups of employees; and technological change as a political process.

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Technological Change and the Labour Process - Towards an Analysis of Computerisation in the New Zealand Trading Banks

New Zealand Journal of Industrial Relations ◽

10.26686/nzjir.v9i3.3573 ◽

1970 ◽

Vol 9 (3) ◽

Author(s):

John Brocklesby

Keyword(s):

New Zealand ◽

Technological Change ◽

Historical Perspective ◽

Industrial Relations ◽

Management Control ◽

Labour Process ◽

Process Framework ◽

The Relationship

Within the labour process framework this paper examines the relationship between technological change and processes of control in the New Zealand trading banks. Adopting an historical perspective the author rejects a crude deskilling thesis but concludes that computerisation has served nevertheless to enhance management control. Moreover it is argued that recent changes in the climate of industrial relations in banking can only be understood within the context of changes in technology.

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The Significance of Mr. Richard Buckley's Exploding Trousers: Reflections on an Aspect of Technological Change in New Zealand Dairy Farming between the World Wars

Agricultural History ◽

10.1525/ah.2004.78.3.346 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 78 (3) ◽

pp. 346-360 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

JAMES WATSON

Keyword(s):

New Zealand ◽

Technological Change ◽

Dairy Farming ◽

The World

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Patents and Development in the New Global Economy

10.1093/oso/9780199593903.003.0009 ◽

2017 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Kenneth C. Shadlen

Keyword(s):

Political Economy ◽

Case Studies ◽

Global Economy ◽

International Political Economy ◽

World Order ◽

Global Politics ◽

Pharmaceutical Patents ◽

Key Points ◽

Comparative Case Studies ◽

Privately Owned

The concluding chapter reviews the main findings from the comparative case studies, synthesizes the main lessons, considers extensions of the book’s explanatory framework, and looks at emerging challenges that countries face in adjusting their development strategies to the new global economy marked by the private ownership of knowledge. Review of the key points of comparison from the case studies underscores the importance of social structure and coalitions for analyses of comparative and international political economy. Looking forward, this chapter supplements the book’s analysis of the political economy of pharmaceutical patents with discussion of additional ways that countries respond to the monumental changes that global politics of intellectual property have undergone since the 1980s. The broader focus underscores fundamental economic and political challenges that countries face in adjusting to the new world order of privately owned knowledge, and points to asymmetries in global politics that reinforce these challenges.

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Medicines management for nursing practice

10.1093/oso/9780199697878.001.0001 ◽

2013 ◽

Author(s):

Graham Brack ◽

Penny Franklin ◽

Jill Caldwell

Keyword(s):

Patient Safety ◽

Case Studies ◽

Nursing Practice ◽

Medicines Management ◽

Knowledge And Skills ◽

Practical Advice ◽

Patient Centred Care ◽

The Common ◽

Skills Learning ◽

Straightforward Approach

Medicines Management for Nursing Practice: Pharmacology, Patient Safety, and Procedures is a friendly guide designed to equip pre-registration and newly qualified nurses with the medicines management knowledge and skills to provide safe patient-centred care. Balancing theory with practical advice, this accessible text covers basic pharmacology, drug calculations, key legislation and standards, and patient safety. Drawing from the most up-to-date sources of evidence and advice, including NMC and BNF guidelines, Medicines Management for Nursing Practice prepares nurses to promote their patients' safety, concordance, understanding of medicines, and wellbeing. This book takes a lively and straightforward approach to a vital set of nursing skills. Learning features such as reflection points, exercises, and further reading help readers to develop and consolidate their knowledge. Chapters on pharmacology and drug calculations take a step-by-step approach and are supported by diagrams and examples to aid understanding. Case studies relate guidelines and theories to the common practical scenarios that nurses encounter on a day-to-day basis.

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Algorithmic Integration and Precarious (Dis)Obedience: On the Co-Constitution of Migration Regime and Workplace Regime in Digitalised Manufacturing and Logistics

Work Employment and Society ◽

10.1177/09500170211031458 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 095001702110314

Author(s):

Simon Schaupp

Keyword(s):

Case Studies ◽

Migrant Workers ◽

External Factors ◽

Manual Work ◽

Work Control ◽

Permanent Residence ◽

Labour Process ◽

Self Organisation ◽

And Migration

This article analyses the interaction of the algorithmic workplace regime and the migration regime in manual work in platform logistics and manufacturing in Germany. Based on ethnographic case studies, the article reconstructs how companies integrate migrant workers by using systems of algorithmic work control. These simplify the labour process and direct workers without relying on a certain language. Algorithmic work control, however, does not realise its intended disciplining effects on its own but is dependent on external factors. A precarious residence status is such an external disciplining factor as it can create an implicit alliance of migrant workers with their employers in the hope for permanent residence. Nonetheless, the interaction of the two regimes also produced new forms of solidarity between the workers, which in some cases led to new forms of self-organisation. Thus, workplace regime and migration regime co-constitute each other.

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'The Proof is on My Palm': Debating Ethnicity, Islam and Ritual in a New African Diaspora

Journal of Religion in Africa ◽

10.1163/157006606775569604 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 36 (1) ◽

pp. 50-77 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Michelle Johnson

Keyword(s):

Life Course ◽

Ethnic Group ◽

Case Studies ◽

African Diaspora ◽

Religious Identity ◽

Muslim Identity ◽

World Religion ◽

Guinea Bissau ◽

The World ◽

The Common

AbstractFor Mandinga in Guinea-Bissau and Portugal, life-course rituals are currently provoking transnational debates on ethnic and religious identity. In Guinea-Bissau, these two identities are thought to be one and the same—to be Mandinga is to 'naturally' be Muslim. For Mandinga immigrants in Portugal, however, the experience of transnationalism and the allure of 'global Islam' have thrust this long-held notion into debate. In this article, I explore the contours and consequences of this debate by focusing on the 'writing-on-the-hand' ritual, which initiates Mandinga children into Qur'anic study. Whereas some Mandinga immigrants in Portugal view the writing-on-the-hand ritual as essential for conferring both Muslim identity and 'Mandinga-ness', others feel that this Mandinga 'custom' should be abandoned for a more orthodox version of Islam. Case studies reveal an internal debate about Mandinga ethnicity, Islam and ritual, one that transcends the common 'traditionalist'/'modernist' distinction. I suggest that the internal debate, although intensified by migration, is not itself a consequence of 'modernity' but has long been central to how Mandinga imagine themselves as both members of a distinct ethnic group and as practitioners of the world religion of Islam.

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