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  • New technology and work in the Australian telecommunications sector: What role for technicians?

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    Ross, Peter
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    Ross, Peter K.
    Year published
    2009
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    This paper examined the impact of rapid technological change on the role and employment practices of Telstra technicians. The ramifications of technological change for these workers included changed skill sets, electronic monitoring,job cuts and the outsourcing of some former core work. The paper concludes that technological determinism may assist in explaining some of the resulting changes to the roles of Telstra's in-house technicians, while the heightened use of electronic monitoring was in line with the 'control imperative' of labour process theory. However, new technology did not appear to be the major factor behind ...
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    This paper examined the impact of rapid technological change on the role and employment practices of Telstra technicians. The ramifications of technological change for these workers included changed skill sets, electronic monitoring,job cuts and the outsourcing of some former core work. The paper concludes that technological determinism may assist in explaining some of the resulting changes to the roles of Telstra's in-house technicians, while the heightened use of electronic monitoring was in line with the 'control imperative' of labour process theory. However, new technology did not appear to be the major factor behind Telstra's shift towards a unitarist employment relations approach. Rather, this approach represented a strategic choice on the part of Telstra management, although new technologies provided support for some of their unitarist strategies.
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    Journal Title
    Labour and Industry
    Volume
    20
    Issue
    1
    Publisher URI
    https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10301763.2009.10669392
    Copyright Statement
    © The Author(s) 2009. The attached file is reproduced here in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. For information about this journal please refer to the journal’s website or contact the author.
    Subject
    Human Resources Management
    Business and Management
    Human Geography
    Policy and Administration
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/30076
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