Technology

see Work, Technology, & Orgs for most references

Ideas:

• technology seen independent of structure
• use and meaning of technology defined by structure
• in turn technology reifies structure
• problematic because physical artifacts not separate from meaning
• technology constrains and enables action
• technical systems often defined as part of social structure

Work

Marx

• Marxist explanation, history
• Alienation
• Marx and technological determinism
• Marx and inevitable split
• interdependency of orgs and larger political system
• internal labor markets, another
• preservation of class society

Weber

• last theory of captialism
• on Weber

Durkheim -- no materials -- division of labor increases interdepedence and risk of anomie

• Beniger & Control
• Founce & Division of Labor
• Hirschman -Rival Views of the Market
• Roles, norms, values