In Forces of Production, David Noble examines the transformation of the machine-tool industry as the industry moved from reliance on skilled artisans to automation. Noble writes from a Marxist perspective, and his central argument is that management, in its decisions to automate, conspired against labor: the power that the skilled machinists wielded in the industry was intolerable to management. Noble fails to substantiate this claim, although his argument is impressive when he applies the Marxist concept of “de-skilling”—the use of technology to replace skilled labor—to the automation of the machine-tool industry. In automating, the industry moved to computer-based, digitized “numerical-control” (N/C) technology, rather than to artisan-generated “record-playback” (R/P) technology.Although both systems reduced reliance on skilled labor, Noble clearly prefers R/P, with its inherent acknowledgment of workers’ skills: unlike N/C, its programs were produced not by engineers at their computers, but by skilled machinists, who recorded their own movements to “teach” machines to duplicate those movements. However, Noble’s only evidence of conspiracy is that, although the two approaches were roughly equal in technical merit, management chose N/C. From this he concludes that automation is undertaken not because efficiency demands it or scientific advances allow it, but because it is a tool in the ceaseless war of capitalists against labor.
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Noble fails to substantiate this claim, although his argument is impressive when he applies the Marxist concept of “de-skilling”—the use oftechnology to replace skilled the automation of the machine-tool industry.定位到这句话中，几乎是原句
commend是赞扬的意思，不是评论的意思
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2020-08-07 17:32:13
万恶的gmat回复jianfengai
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2021-08-02 00:35:10
对书的那部分进行commend？ impressive就是commend
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2019-08-08 19:05:27
Chelsea冲750回复Chelsea冲750
commend 推荐，称赞。理解错了题目意思。
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2019-08-08 19:06:27
定位最后一句 好不容易做对了点错选项了啊阿啊
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2019-08-08 18:51:04
Chelsea冲750回复Chelsea冲750
看错了emmm
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2019-08-08 18:57:54
B怎么排？
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2019-05-12 15:37:26
Emma_回复Emma_
明白了
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2019-05-12 15:40:10
定位到his argument is impressive when he applies the Marxist concept of “de-skilling”
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2018-10-05 16:20:09
impressive
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