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Document ID (ISN)19765
CIS number 72-2400
ISSN - Serial title 0465-546X - Medicina y seguridad del trabajo
Year 1972
Convention or series no.
Author(s) Fernández Fole F.
Title Workers' mental attitude during the process of adaptation to industrial work
Original title Posturas mentales del trabajador en su proceso de adaptabilidad a la industria [in Spanish]
Bibliographic information Jan.-Mar. 1972, Vol.20, No.77, p.25-30.
Abstract Review of various mental attitudes of the worker during his adaptation to industrial work: attachment to tradition, relation with the machine, indifference, aggressiveness towards automation, revolutionary and destructive attitude. Attemps to explain numerous types of conduct which, taken in isolation or in a given context (e.g. economic situation, harmful effects of industrial work, leisure occupations), have a decisive effect on the whole adaptation process and its results (good, inadequate or non-existent adaptation of the worker to industrial work).
Descriptors (primary) adaptation of man to work; ergonomics; psychology and sociology; automation
Descriptors (secondary) mental attitude
Document type D - Periodical articles
Subject(s) Psychology and sociology
Ergonomics and work organization
Broad subject area(s)
Browse category(ies) Psychological factors
Ergonomics