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This fascinating book traces the history and evolution of the "knowledge worker," a term coined to describe employees in the Information Age who do mental as opposed to manual labor, and provides insights and conjecture as to the future role of such workers.
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This fascinating book traces the history and evolution of the "knowledge worker," a term coined to describe employees in the Information Age who do mental as opposed to manual labor, and provides insights and conjecture as to the future role of such workers.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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James Cortada has amassed a collection of articles on this topic by historians, sociologists and economists. . .
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Today, management throughout the industrialized world has become wary of new management concepts, calling new ideas "fads" and wondering where it will all end. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
potential civilian labor force, noninformation workers, information work force, detailed specialties, coordination specialists, kindred workers, data workers, cent sand, society that supports, statistical clerks, collective plan, first specialty, information occupations, free enterprisers, sales workers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New York, World War, Bureau of the Census, Civil War, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Daniel Bell, Member States, Census Bureau, Sioux City, Western Europe, Current Population Reports, Department of Commerce, European Council, Knowledge-Producing Occupation Groups, Peter Drucker, Uncertain Future, East Asia, Economically Active Civilian Population, General Motors, Mary Parker Follett, North America, Occupational Trends, Pace Institute, Public Sector New!
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Today, management throughout the industrialized world has become wary of new management concepts, calling new ideas "fads" and wondering where it will all end. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
potential civilian labor force, noninformation workers, information work force, detailed specialties, coordination specialists, kindred workers, data workers, cent sand, society that supports, statistical clerks, collective plan, first specialty, information occupations, free enterprisers, sales workers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New York, World War, Bureau of the Census, Civil War, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Daniel Bell, Member States, Census Bureau, Sioux City, Western Europe, Current Population Reports, Department of Commerce, European Council, Knowledge-Producing Occupation Groups, Peter Drucker, Uncertain Future, East Asia, Economically Active Civilian Population, General Motors, Mary Parker Follett, North America, Occupational Trends, Pace Institute, Public Sector New!
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- The Coming Of Post-industrial Society (Harper Colophon Books) by Daniel Bell on page 136, page 168, and Index
- Competing for the Future by Gary Hamel on page 17, and Index
- How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie on page 210, and Index
- The Production and Distribution of Knowledge in the United States by Fritz Machlup in Front Matter, and Index
- BEYOND THE TYPEWRITER: "GENDER, CLASS, AND THE ORIGINS OF MODER (Women in American History) by Sharon Strom on page 23, and Index
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- Collective Knowledge by ROBERT MARCUS AND BEVERLEY WA on 5 pages
- High Skills: Globalization, Competitiveness, and Skill Formation by Phillip Brown in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Management: The Basics by Morgen Witzel on page 184, and Back Matter
- A Nation Transformed by Information: How Information Has Shaped the United States from Colonial Times to the Present by Alfred D. Chandler Jr. in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Innovation SuperHighway: Harnessing Intellectual Capital for Collaborative Advantage by Debra M Amidon on page 88, and Back Matter
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