To focus on processes of scientific and technological design and on how newly designed objects are used in different ways than initially intended (“displaced”), the organizers (the Society for Social Studies on Science-4S and the European Association of Studies on Science and...

Some programs and research networks are dealing with topics associated to the automtive sector and they observe one of the most significative sectores of modern economies. Because of that is so interesting to forecast some possible changes in an horizon of 10 to 20 years. But this exercse must...

The innovation in the employment behaviour is particularly clear in what concerns the sector composition of the employment changes: the persistent decrease of the industrial employment (even if within a framework of some recovery of the industrial product), a slight expansion in the employment...

The relation between work organisation and technological practices in auto industry is analysed in this article. The concept of "technological practice" in this sector is used to describe the specific ways of embedding information and communication technology applications into the organizational...

The paper examines changes in work in the context of the globalisation process. In a global economy, value chains are becoming more global, more fragmented and longer. Therefore the dynamics of a global change of work can only be understood in the context of restructuring of value chains. The...

Most of the discussion and controversy on organisation of work concepts has been referenced to the manufacturing industry along the 20th century: it started with the concept of "scientific management" from Taylor, and continued with the new ideas on the importance of human factors as Mayo...

The foresight and scenario building methods can be an interesting reference for social sciences, especially in terms of innovative methods for labour process analysis. A scenario - as a central concept for the prospective analysis - can be considered as a rich and detailed portrait of a...

Recent studies continue to indicate the existence of a narrow relationship between flexible work organizations and the economic growth, in particular, Sweden and Germany. The measure of this relationship is many times the result of the value added per worker. Therefore, the causes of economic...