Employees, unions, and technological changes: a research agenda

Technological changes may disrupt labor-management relations. Understanding why some workers resist technologocal change, while others accept and facilitate it, can be crucial for the survival of many firms. Unfortunately, the industrial relations literature on employees and technological change suffers from a lack of common focus and the absence of a common theoretical framework. This article attempts to redress this problem by distilling the available knowledge into a model which describes the contexts in which employee reaction to technological change would likely be supportive of the change, and those where it would not. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)