ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the connection between computing and the reproduction of the job, the predominant social relationship in Sheffield as in all other employment social formations. Microsystems had survived by selling computer hardware to educational and community computing agencies in the region. The distinction between the dynamics of work and the dynamics of labor is necessary for a comparative study of computing. If Computing is transforming society, the characteristics of the new world should be prefigured in computered jobs. Though work and labor are often conflated by persons living in employment-based social formations, much production of food, clothing, shelter, well-being, and energy often takes place outside the labor form. The computerization situation in manufacturing is different in different labor sites. Computerization has spread more fully into services such as banking and accounting than it has in manufacturing.
