Labor & Management in Newspaper Industry

A comparison was made between the perceptions of labor leaders in the American newspaper industry. Data were collected from a national sample of 30 such labor leaders. It was concluded that newspaper labor leaders: (1) do not think that technological innovation will lead to improved industry productivity, and, thus, are unlikely to cooperate in the incorporation of such innovations into the industry; (2) do not accept the proposition that technological innovation can occur simultaneously with the protection of employee interests, and, thus, are unlikely to cooperate in the introduction of such innovations; (3) do not accept the proposition that technological innovation can occur simultaneously with the preservation of union effectiveness, and, thus, are unlikely to cooperate in the introduction of such innovations; and (4) think that the necessary level of cooperation will occur to permit the effective introduction of technological innovation even though they oppose the process, and thus, newspaper management has a golden opportunity to both better labor relations and attain its own goals.

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t its not far off the mark if we are not talking about transportation but about today's computers and the exchange of information among them. Although computers are now numerous and  23Roger. Penrose, The Emperor's New Mind (Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 1989), 407. 24M. L. Dertouzos, "Building An Information Marketplace," Technology Review, 94 (1991): 29. widespread, they are used mainly in isolation. When they communicate, they do so ineffectively . . . . Telecommunications in the future of is going to be even more heavily dependent upon computer technology than is today's telecommunications. Thus, the telecommunications infrastructure required, if, in the future, the full potential of telecommunications technologies are to be realized, must be structured with computers in mind. Such a telecommunications infrastructure for the near future will have four essential characteristicsflexibility in the movement of information, common conventions for the movement and access of information, major common resources of information to serve users, and a plethora of applications of telecommunications technologies. "Superficially, it might seem that the telephone system . . . would be adequate for a national
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