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In recent years the character of work in advanced industrial society has been changing rapidly. Production is being automated and computerised. The factory operated by massed workers is being superseded. Industrial labour is ceasing to be the dominant form of work. Work in offices that used to require intellectual skills is now done by computers. With the enormous growth of jobs in the service sector and the increasing use of information technology, new kinds of work are being created.
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Sayers, S. (2011). The Concept of Labour. In: Marx and Alienation. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230309142_3
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