This study examines the relationship between new technology and pharmacy's changing role in the division of labour in health care. Does automation advance pharmacy's collective mobility project and transition to its new role as a clinical rather than a merely technical profession? Alternatively,...

Recent debates in the sociology of work and employment have drawn a pessimistic picture of the leading mass production industries in the advanced nations and the core labour markets they sustain. It has been claimed that such industries are in decline and that their workers face an assault on...