Catalogue Search | MBRL
Are you sure you want to remove the book from the shelf?
{{itemTitle}}
26
result(s) for
"Malsch, Thomas"
Sort by:
Breaking from Taylorism : changing forms of work in the automobile industry
The authors examine the restructuring of the world automobile industry in the 1980s, and draw data from an in-depth empirical study of three leading car companies in three different countries: the United States, the United Kingdom and Germany.
Book
Conflicting agents : conflict management in multi-agent systems
Conflicts between agents acting in a multi-agent environment arise for different reasons, involve different concepts, and are dealt with in different ways, depending on the kind of agents and on the domain where they are considered. Agents may have conflicting beliefs, conflicting goals, or may have to share limited resources. Consequently, conflicts may be expressed as mere differences, or as contradictions, or even as social conflicts. They may be avoided, solved, kept or even created deliberately. This volume studies conflicts in the context of multi-agent systems, for example, artificial societies modelled on the basis of autonomous, interacting agents. The book addresses questions about types of conflicts, conflict definitions and the use of conflicts as trigger functions for activities in multi-agent systems. The book is also dedicated to questions of conflict management, resolution and avoidance, for example, the question of how agents cope with conflicts and conflicting situations.
eBook
Conflicts in Social Theory and Multi-agent Systems
This chapter seeks to give the reader an idea of how to import conflict conceptions from sociology into distributed AI (DAI). In a preliminary comparison of conflict research in DAI and sociology, we show that both disciplines talk about essentially the same issues when they refer to conflict, although there are important differences in their motivations and reasons for studying conflict. The main sections deal with conflict from the perspectives of two mainstreams of sociological thought: the theory of autopoietic social systems and the pragmatist theories of symbolic interaction. Following our attempt to derive useful conceptual insights from the two theoretical approaches and to identify potentialities for future interdisciplinary research, six interrelated themes are described which seem to be of particular promise for both DAI and sociology alike.
Book Chapter
Trade Unions and the Technological Intelligentsia in France: A Contribution to the Historical Development of Organizational Forms in the Trade Unions of Technological and Managerial Personnel
A history & detailed analysis of the French labor movement in general, & the evolution of labor unions for white-collar workers in particular, is presented. The white-collar Confederation generale des cadres & the 3 blue-collar industrial labor confederations, the Confederation generale du travail, the Confederation francaise democratique du travail (CFDT), & the CGT-FO (Force ouvriere) contain substantial numbers of office workers. The last three have been engaged in a debate on the new Wc (engineers, supervisors, scientists) & its unique labor problems. The historical recapitulation of this development is divided into the periods 1920-1939, 1940-1950, & the 1960s. While the union representation of the technological intelligentsia in the 1950s was in the same stagnation that affected the rest of the French workers, unions in the 1960s began to break away from the traditional \"Catholic welfare\" concepts, toward concepts of democratic socialism. In organizing white-collar cadres, both the CFDT & the CGT had to solve the conflict between autonomy & integration. While the CGT came to increasingly recognize that technological & supervisory personnel required a relatively autonomous representation, the CFDT succeeded in integrating such personnel separate from that of the blue-collar work force. The problem of separate vs integrated representation was solved by permitting \"double membership,\" which is now accepted by both unions. S. Whittle.
Journal Article
