情報化と新しい分業構造(<特集>現代資本主義と情報革命)

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  • Information Technology and New Division of Labor(<SPECIAL ISSUE>Contemporary Capitalism and Information Revolution)
  • 情報化と新しい分業構造
  • ジョウホウカ ト アタラシイ ブンギョウ コウゾウ

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This paper discusses recent changes in division of labor. These changes have been occurring through the development and diffusion of information technology. (1) Information technology is based on the idea of reducing any information to binary digital information that is available in computers. This method has transformed tacit knowledge into explicit knowledge as much as possible. It also has stimulated new fields to open where computers can be adapted. Besides, microelectronics can make computers very small and handy by developing and using integrated circuits. This is the technological reason why computers have come to be used everywhere in our society these days, including factories, offices, farms, schools, hospitals, many kinds of markets, and other various institutions. (2) Nowadays a great many means of labor have been computerized thanks to information technology. Computers can automatize multi-purpose machines and they are also useful in feed-back control systems in factories. From these changes in means of labor, new division of labor within a workshop has been produced. In this new division of labor, laborers are not necessarily fixed to thoroughly divided parts of the production process. They can be reorganized according to their own functions. (3) On the other hand, information technology stimulates activities of invention. And it rapidly diffuses new inventions all over the world. So it will accelerate global competitions: so-called "Mega-competition". In the process of global competitions, concentration and centralization of capital must go forward, that results in global monopolies. This tendency is now beginning to appear. (4) Global monopolies organize the social division of labor. They organize various workshops in various countries. Information technology is a great use for this. Anarchy in the social division of labor is the basic condition in capitalism. But now, global monopolies have begun to design it to a certain extent.

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