Technology, Work and Society

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Jim Davis, Thomas Hirschl and Michael Stack (eds.), Cutting Edge: Technology, Information, Capitalism and Social Revolution , London: Verso, 1997, paper £15.00, vii+304 pp. Giovanni Dosi, David J. Teece and Josef Chytry (eds.), Technology, Organization and Competitiveness: Perspectives on Industrial and Corporate Change , Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998, £45.00, ix+345 pp. Michael Dunkerley, The Jobless Economy? Computer Technology in the World of Work , Cambridge: Polity Press, 1996, paper £11.95, viii+168 pp. M. David Ermann, Mary B. Williams and Michele S. Schauf (eds.), Computers, Ethics and Society (2nd Edition), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997, paper £15.99, viii+340 pp. Robin Mansell and Roger Silverstone (eds.), Communication by Design: The Politics of Information and Communication Technologies , Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996, paper £14.99, xiv+278 pp. The significance of technology shows no signs of giving up its claim to pre-eminence amongst recent book titles and this selection covers a wide variety of approaches from the ‘popular’ (Dunkerley) to the ‘radical’ (Davis et al. ) to the ‘learned academic’ (Mansell and Silverstone, and Dosi et al. ) to the textbook (Ermann et al. ). The markets for these books are quite different but they all have something of value to say to the interested reader.