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Eric Trist

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Also known as Eric Lansdown Trist

British scientist (1909–1993)

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Works
7

Top works

  • Towards A Social Ecology
  • All Teams Are Not Created Equal
  • Social Engagement of Social Science, a Tavistock Anthology, Volume 3
  • Social Engagement of Social Science, a Tavistock Anthology, Volume 2
  • Social Engagement of Social Science, a Tavistock Anthology, Volume 1

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Group
Origin
Czechia
Active from
2003
Active to
2014
depressive black metal

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Quotes

  • We are moving towards another type of society than that to which we have become accustomed. This is sometimes referred to as a new service society, the society of the second industrial revolution or the post-industrial society. There is no guarantee of our safe arrival. Not only are the interdependencies greater – they are differently structured... The changes in the policy field [housing, health care, urban rehabilitation, education, etc.] demand a new mobilization of the sciences.
  • We know from experience that technology can be changed. We have learned in the quality-of-working-life enterprise not to accept the technological imperative.
  • Faced with low productivity despite improved equipment, and with drift from the pits despite both higher wages and better amenities... a point seems to have been reached where the [coal] industry is in a mood to question a method it has taken for granted.
  • The longwall method [can be] regarded as a technological system expressive of the prevailing outlook of mass-production engineering and as a social structure consisting of the occupational roles that have been institutionalized in its use.
  • [The workmethods had] evolved from the experience of successive generations... Each other, often being members of the same family; supervision was internal, having the quality of 'responsible autonomy.
  • The advantage of placing responsibility for the complete coal-getting task squarely on the shoulders of a single, small, face-to-face group which experiences the entire cycle of operations within the compass of its membership. [And furthermore], for each participant the task has total significance and dynamic closure .

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