Democracy and technology / Richard E. Sclove.
Material type: TextSeries: Conduct of science seriesPublisher: New York : Guilford Press, [1995]Copyright date: ©1995Description: xiv, 338 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0898628601
- 9780898628609
- 089862861X
- 9780898628616
- 303.483 20
- JA80 .S58 1995
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Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 303.483 SCL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A294650B |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-318) and index.
"This eye-opening book describes how modern technologies--such as computers, automobiles, machine tools, hybrid crops, nuclear reactors, and others--contribute to vexing social problems ranging from the continued subordination of women and workers to widespread political disengagement. Engineers, manufacturers, and policy makers rarely take these consequences into account. Contending that reinvigorated democratic politics can and should supersede conventional economic reasoning as a basis for decisions about technology, Richard Sclove clearly outlines how the general public can become actively involved in all phases of technology decision making, from assessment and policy making to research and development."--Publisher description.
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