Prometheus. Critical Studies in Innovation

Prometheus

Volume 7, Issue 2

Issue date: 01 December 1989

Journal: Prometheus. Critical Studies in Innovation

IMPROVING MANAGERIAL APPROACHES TO INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Bela Gold	213
WORK PRACTICES, TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE AND SHEET METAL WORKERS, 1929-1970 Kosmas Tsokhas	225
THE HUMAN FRONTIER SCIENCE PROGRAMME: A WINDOW INTO TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY RESEARCH FOR AUSTRALIA Stephen Utick	239
THE INTERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS UNION AT THE CROSSROADS Poul Hansen, William H. Melody	254
LUDDITES, HIPPIES AND ROBOTS: AUTOMATION AND THE POSSIBILITY OF RESISTANCE Carl G. Hedman	273
THE IMPLICATIONS FOR TERTIARY VOCATIONAL EDUCATION OF THE GOVERNMENTS EMPHASIS UPON SKILLS FORMATION Pauline Mageean	292
INFORMATION SERVICES FOR RURAL COMMUNITIES: THE “TELECOTTAGE” PROJECT Steve Harrison, Lars Qvortrup	303
THE IMPACT OF THE 150 PER CENT TAX CONCESSION FOR INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN AUSTRALIA — A PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENT Larry Dwyer	316
HUMAN QUALITIES NECESSARY FOR INVENTION: INDEPENDENT INVENTORS AND THE STIMULUS OF ADVERSITY Stuart Macdonald	333
Oceans of Wealth? by the Review Committee on Marine Industries, Science and Technology (AGPS, Canberra, 1989) pp.xx + 188, ISBN 0-644-09617-9 Clem Tisdell	349
Technology Absorption in Indian Industry edited by Ashok V. Desai (Wiley Eastern Limited, New Delhi, 1988) pp. x + 210, $US10.00, ISBN 81-224-0051-5 Arun Kashyap	351
On the Applicability of Computerized Production Control in an Egyptian Industry by Pär Lind (Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, 1988) pp. x + 215, ISBN 91-7170-926-6 Chris Sauer	355
The Tragedy of Technology: Human Liberation Versus Domination in the Late Twentieth Century by Stephen Hill (London, Pluto Press, 1988) pp. 294, ISBN 1-853-05-009-1 Tessa Morris-Suzuki	357
Taming the Tyrant: The First 100 Years of Australia's International Telecommunications Services by Edgar Harcourt (Allen and Unwin, Sydney, 1987) pp. xvi + 405, cloth $39.95, ISBN 0 04 994011 2 James Foreman-Peck	360
The Organisational Implications of Computer Technology for Professional Work by Stephen E. Little (Gower Publishing, Aldershot, 1988) pp. xvii + 199, cloth $39.50, ISBN 056605454 X Tony Bryant	364
Strategic Trade Policy and the New International Economics edited by Paul Krugma (MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1987) pp. x + 313, ISBN 0-262-11112-8 Alan Lougheed	366
Costs and Benefits of the Heart Transplant Programmes at Harefield and Papworth Hospitals by Martin Buxton, Roy Acheson, Noreen Caine, Stuart Gibson and Bernie O'Brien (Department of Health and Social Security, Research Report No. 12, HMSO, London, 1985) pp. viii + 171, ISBN 0-11-321033-7 Kaye Brown	368
Biotechnology in Australia by the Biotechnology Consultative Group (AGPS, Canberra, 1988) pp. xiii + 54, ISBN 0-644-08068-X Ditta Bartels	371
Letters to Thinkers: Further Thoughts on Lateral Thinking by Edward de Bono (Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1988), paper, $16.95, ISBN 0-14-022806-3 Edward W. Ploman	374
The Information Society by David Lyon (Polity Press, Cambridge, UK, 1988) pp. x + 196, ISBN 0-7456-0260-6 Pascal Tremblay	377
CIM Computer Integrated Manufacturing: Computer Steered Industry by August-Wilhelm Scheer (Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1988) pp. xii + 200, ISBN 3-540-19191-7 Sidney E. Harris	380
From Mangle to Microwave: The Mechanisation of Household Work by Christina Hardyment (Polity Press, Cambridge, 1988) pp. 220, £15, ISBN 0-7456-0206-1 Wendy Faulkner	383
International Business in the Nineteenth Century: The Rise and Fall of a Cosmopolitan Bourgeoisie by Charles A. Jones (Wheatsheaf Books, Brighton, 1987) pp. xi + 260, ISBN 7450-0399-0 Colin Baber	385
The Commonwealth of Science: ANZAAS and the Scientific Enterprise in Australasia 1888–1988 edited by Roy MacLeod (Oxford University Press, Sydney, 1988) pp. xvi + 417, cloth $35.00, ISBN 0-19-554683-0 Ragbir Bhathal	386
Technical Change and Industrial Policy edited by Keith Chapman and Graham Humphrys (Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1987) pp. 264, US$49.95 hardback, ISBN 0-631-15215-6 Chris Thompson	388
The Economic Analysis of Technology Policy by Paul Stoneman (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1987) pp. x + 224, ISBN 0-19-877260-2 Yannis Katsoulacos	391
Beyond Computopia: Information, Automation and Democracy in Japan by Tessa Morris-Suzuki (Kegan Paul International, London, 1988) pp. x + 221, cloth £30, ISBN 07103-0293-2 Hans-Jürgen Engelbrecht	392
Information Resources and Corporate Growth edited by Eduardo Punset and Gerry Sweeney (Frances Pinter, New York/London, 1989) £25, ISBN 0-86187-720-9 Meheroo Jussawalla	395
Technology and the Labour Process: Australian Case Studies edited by Evan Willis (Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1988) pp. ix + 201, paper $19.95, ISBN 0-04-337008-X Sue Whyte	398
Technology and Competition in the International Telecommunications Industry by David Charles, Peter Monk and Ed Sciberras (Pinter Publishers, London, 1989) pp. 178, hardback £27.50, ISBN 0-86187-9937 Robin Mansell	400
Future Directions for Pay Television in Australia. Volume 1: Report; Volume 2: Appendices and Common Carriers Papers Department of Transport and Communications (AGPS, Canberra, 1989) Vol. 1 $14.95, Vol. 2 $24.95, ISBN 0-644-09425-7 Sam Paltridge	403
The Rules Are No Game: The Strategy of Communication by Anthony Wilden (Routledge and Kegan Paul, London and New York, 1987) pp. xv + 432, ISBN 0-7100-9868-5 David Sless	406
Chaos: Making a New Science by James Gleick (Cardinal, London, 1989) pp. 352, $14.99, ISBN 0-7474-0413-5 Joshua Gans	412
And The Band Played On: Politics, People and the Aids Epidemic by Randy Shilts (Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1987) pp. xxiii + 630, paper $24.95, ISBN 0-14-011130-1 Ruth Hart	415
Utah and Queensland Coal: A Study in the Micro Political Economy of Modern Capitalism and the State by Brian Galligan (University of Queensland Press, Brisbane, 1989) pp. xxii + 268, paper $24.95, ISBN 0 7022 2190 2	419
Decisions and Organizations by J.G. Marsh (Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1988) pp. vi + 458, cloth $75.00, ISBN 0 631 15812 X	419
The Politics of Power: Inside Australia's Electric Utilities by Stephen Rosenthal and Peter Russ (Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1988) pp. viii + 351, paper $24.95, ISBN 0 522 84264 X	419
Utah and Queensland Coal: A Study in the Micro Political Economy of Modem Capitalism and the State by Brian Galligan (University of Queensland Press, Brisbane, 1989) pp. xxii + 268, paper $24.95, ISBN 0 7022 2190 2	419