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Introduction

In: Technology, Economic Growth and the Labour Process

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  • Phil Blackburn
  • Rod Coombs
  • Kenneth Green

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Public interest in technology appears to move in waves. From World War Two to the late 1960s technological developments — particularly prestigious ones like atomic power, space technologies and ‘automation’ — were embraced by people of all political persuasions as essential contributors to a rapidly growing economy. By the late 1960s this enthusiasm had become tempered by a concern for the undesirable aspects of technology. This was stimulated by the appalling demonstration of technologically-based American military might in Vietnam, by the massive spending by rich states on prestige projects (particularly in aerospace) in a world still riven with hunger and poverty and by the accumulation of a host of environmental problems in air, water and land produced as side-effects of post-war economic growth.

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  • Phil Blackburn & Rod Coombs & Kenneth Green, 1985. "Introduction," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Technology, Economic Growth and the Labour Process, chapter 1, pages 1-12, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-07517-1_1
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-07517-1_1
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