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"Over the past 4 decades, the number of professional and technical workers has
increased by 282 percent, and economic forecasts indicate that this trend of
rapid growth will increase. The bureaucratization of the professions, expansion
and application of scientific knowledge, and technological change have all
fueled a "technization" of the work force. The trend toward an increasingly
technical work force has not only necessitated a better educated work force but
has challenged the ways in which the work force and workplace are currently
conceptualized and organized. The vertical division of labor that has become
increasingly dominant in Western society since the beginning of the 19th
century is showing signs of strain because technical occupations (referred to
as the "new crafts") are becoming increasingly analytic and are requiring
ever-increasing amounts of specialized education. In view of these changes,
researchers associated with the Program on
Technology and Work at Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations have
undertaken a 5-year program to build a comparative database to facilitate the
development of a grounded theory of technical work."
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