We know how to punish retailers and manufacturers that don't provide quality and value. But we're lousy at fighting effectively for what we really need - reliable insurance policies; affordable health care; safe, healthy food.
Shoshana ZuboffAs information technology restructures the work situation, it abstracts thought from action.
Shoshana ZuboffActivities that seem to represent choices are often inert reproductions of accepted practice.
Shoshana ZuboffEarlier generations of machines decreased the complexity of tasks. In contrast, information technologies can increase the intellectual content of work at all levels. Work comes to depend on an ability to understand, respond to, manage, and create value from information.
Shoshana ZuboffThe history of work has been, in part, the history of the worker's body. Production depended on what the body could accomplish with strength and skill. Techniques that improve output have been driven by a general desire to decrease the pain of labor as well as by employers' intentions to escape dependency upon that knowledge which only the sentient laboring body could provide.
Shoshana Zuboff