This study deals with how workers actively introduced a new technique to their own labour process. More specifically, it is concerned with how Swedish forest workers during the 1950s gradually replaced the manual one-man crosscut saw with the motor-driven saw. The workers’ own views and actions are of central importance to the analysis of this proc...
Published in Applied Ergonomics
L'auteur montre que l'industrialisation de la formation ressort d'abord d'un processus et d'une idéologie de la rationalisation. En premier lieu, l'État cherche depuis longtemps à rationaliser la formation, notamment professionnelle, par la voie réglementaire, pour qu'elle remplisse les objectifs qu'il lui assigne. Mais il y a aussi la rationalisat...
This study deals with how workers actively introduced a new technique to their own labour process. More specifically, it is concerned with how Swedish forest workers during the 1950s gradually replaced the manual one-man crosscut saw with the motor-driven saw. The workers’ own views and actions are of central importance to the analysis of this proc...
A decision support system (DSS) is developed to improve the quality of decision making in wood processing companies. Wood processing companies are businesses that import (buy, harvest) raw materials, stems and logs, and export (deliver) products, assortments and boards, after a multi-step conversion process.The DSS, called IDEAS (Integral Decision ...
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