Labour institutions and technological change: A framework for analysis and a review of the literature

Assesses the degree to which workers participate in technological decisions, how they use their decision-making power, and how worker organizations interact with management to affect the degree and nature of participation in technology choice and use. The paper consciously does not discuss the employment effects of technological change, even though the expectations of negative employment effects on the part of labour are an important part of the reason that labour organizations are concerned about the introduction of new technologies into the labour process. Rather, the analysis here focuses directly on what impact labour institutions have on technological change, regardless of the actual longer-run employment effects of the technology [author]