We present the US television premiere of this outstanding, new
British documentary on the effects of automation and new
technology on workers and the workplace. The film compares the
glittering promises of business spokespersons about the
potentially liberating aspects with the realities of corporate
motivation for installing such equipment: higher profits and
destruction of worker power. The result is weakening of worker
and labor union control and the production not only of fewer
jobs, but work that requires less skill, is more monotonous,
is less social in nature and is lower paying. Additional
perspectives are provided by Dr. Harry Cleaver, an economics
professor at the University of Texas.

Recorded March, 1983
"NEW TECHNOLOGY: WHOSE PROGRESS?" Copyright 1981
Copyright March, 1983

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