Cover -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Technology and Work in German Industry -- ISF Munchen -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Contents -- Figures -- Foreword -- Part I Concepts -- 1 No End in Sight-Current Debates on the Future of Industrial Work -- 2 Stranger in Paradise- An American's Perspective on German Industrial Sociology -- 3 The Contradictions of Post-Tayloristic Rationalization and the Uncertain Future of Industrial Work -- 4 Systemic Rationalization and Inter-Company Divisions of Labour -- Part II Development and Application of New Technologies -- 5 On the History of NC-Technology - Different Paths of Development -- 6 The Role of Manufacturing Technology Markets in Systemic Rationalization Processes -- 7 Thinking Machines, Dreaming Engineers? Towards Applied Expert System Technology -- 8 Computerized Manufacturing and Sensory Perception - New Demands on the Analysis of Work -- Part III CIM and Organizational Change in the Mechanical Engineering Industries -- 9 Diffusion of CIM-Technologies- Dynamic Dissemination and Alternative Paths of Innovation -- 10 Technological Innovation- Organizational Conservatism? -- 11 Flexible Manufacturing Systems and Work Organization -- 12 Bringing Skills Back to the Process -- Part IV Restructuring of Work in Mass Production Industries -- 13 Work Structuring and Company Performance Policies -- 14 The Future of the Mass Production Worker -- 15 Towards a Polarization of Skill Structures -- Part V Job Structures and Skill Formation -- 16 Vocational Training, Job Structures and the Labour Market-An International Perspective -- 17 Education and Job Hierarchies -Contrasting Evidence from France and Germany -- 18 Mechanical Engineer versus Computer Scientist- Different Roads to CIM in France and Germany