Download or read book Automation and Alienation written by Jon M. Shepard and published by MIT Press (MA). This book was released on 1971 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: USA. Research study of the impact on occupational psychology of automation and technological change, with particular reference to the integration into, or alienation from work of industrial workers and office workers - describes the research methods used, covers computerization and EDP personnel, the effect of the changing division of labour on employees attitudes and Motivation to work and concludes that automated technology reduces the levels of alienation among both office employees and factory workers. Bibliography pp. 145 to 155, references and statistical tables.