| Description |
xii, 292 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. From a Pre-Industrial to a Post-Service Society -- 2. An Age of Discontinuity -- 3. A New Analysis of the Labour Force -- 4. Two Types of Employment and Time Use -- 5. Computers and Employment -- 6. The Employment Revolution -- 7. Education for Life (or Employment?) -- 8. The Information Explosion and Its Threats -- 9. Work in an Age of Automata -- 10. Technological Determinism: 'But We Have No Choice' -- 11. What is to Be Done? -- Appendix: Jones' Eight Laws -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
Australia - like Europe and the United States - is passing through a post-industrial revolution. Manufacturing continues to decline. Increasingly, we live in an information-based economy. Sleepers, Wake! - an enduring bestseller first published in 1982 and now available in a revised and updated fourth edition - confronts the challenges posed by science and technology and by Australia's changing economic position. Barry Jones, the former Australian Minister for Science and current National President of the Australian Labor Party, draws on the latest data to alert readers to the need to confront key issues associated with the post-industrial and information revolutions. He examines the contraction of the manufacturing industry and the rise of service employment, especially in information services. Sleepers, Wake! assesses these dilemmas and outlines a political programme to ensure that society profits from the technological revolution |
| Analysis |
Social change Effects of Technology |
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Social change Effects of Technology |
| Notes |
Includes index |
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Library's N copy signed by the author, 8 February 2016. ANL |
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Previous ed.: Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 1990 |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages [275]-285 |
| Notes |
Previous ed.: Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 1990 |
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Donation. ANU COOP 20120212 Brissenden collection, ANU Library |
| Subject |
Labor supply -- Effect of technological innovations on -- Australia.
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Labor supply -- Effect of technological innovations on.
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Labor supply -- Australia.
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Social change -- Australia.
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Social change.
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Technologists.
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Technology -- Social aspects.
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Technological unemployment -- Australia.
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Technology.
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| LC no. |
96121070 |
| ISBN |
0195537564 |
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