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New technology and Hong Kong telephone workers
Author(s) -
Ure John
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
new technology, work and employment
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.889
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1468-005X
pISSN - 0268-1072
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-005x.1993.tb00040.x
Subject(s) - telecommunications , telephone network , business , paradigm shift , telephone exchange , engineering , telephone line , philosophy , epistemology
Most studies of technological change in telecommunications have researched incremental shifts within the analogue switching paradigm. This paper takes the case of the shift to digital switching in Hong Kong's public telephone network. It focuses upon how this change was managed and the consequential changes in labour relations.