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Employee Scheduling Software Sources  

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Wood, A. J. (2016). Flexible scheduling, degradation of job quality and barriers to collective voice. Human Relations, 69(10), 1989-2010. doi:10.1177/0018726716631396

This article examines this inconsistency through an indepth investigation of workers’ experience of flexible scheduling at a large UK retailer.The article proceeds to investigate empirically UK workers’ experience of flexible scheduling in practice, the consequences for job quality, and how flexible scheduling is affected by the presence of a trade union and collective bargaining.

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the Capitalist Enterprise. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Guest, R. H., & Gallie, D. (1979). In Search of the New Working Class: Automation and Social Integration within the Capitalist Enterprise. Contemporary Sociology, 8(3), 479. doi:10.2307/2064642

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Goudswaard A, Dhondt S, Vergeer R and Oeij P (2012) Organisation of Working Time: Implications for Productivity and Working Conditions – Overview Report. Dublin: Eurofound.

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Lambert SJ, Haley-Lock A and Henly JR (2012) Schedule flexibility in hourly jobs: Unanticipated consequences and promising directions. Community, Work & Family 15(3): 293–315.

Lambert, S. J., Haley-Lock, A., & Henly, J. R. (2012). Schedule flexibility in hourly jobs: Unanticipated consequences and promising directions. Community, Work & Family, 15(3), 293-315. doi:10.1080/13668803.2012.662803

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Batstone E, Boraston I and Frenkel S (1977) Shop Stewards in Action: The Organization of Workplace Conflict and Accommodation. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.

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Employee Scheduling Software

Early Employee scheduling Automation's

Punch Cards

The earliest form of automated employee scheduling and managing of employee hours was the Punch Card. The idea first created by Basile Bouchon developed the control of a loom by punched holes in paper tape in 1725. The design was improved by his assistant Jean-Baptiste Falcon and Jacques Vaucanson (1740). Although these improvements controlled the patterns woven, they still required an assistant to operate the mechanism. In 1801 Joseph Marie Jacquard demonstrated a mechanism to automate loom operation. A number of punched cards were linked into a chain of any length. Each card held the instructions for shedding (raising and lowering the warp) and selecting the shuttle for a single pass. It is considered an important step in the history of computing hardware.[5]

Semen Korsakov was reputedly the first to use the punched cards in informatics for information store and search. Korsakov announced his new method and machines in September 1832; rather than seeking patents, he offered the machines for public use.[7]

Hollerith founded The Tabulating Machine Company (1896) which was one of four companies that were consolidated to form Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company, later renamed the International Business Machines Corporation (IBM). IBM manufactured and marketed a variety of unit record machines for creating, sorting, and tabulating punched cards, even after expanding into electronic computers in the late 1950s. IBM developed punched card technology into a powerful tool for business data-processing and produced an extensive line of general purpose unit record machines. By 1950, the IBM card and IBM unit record machines had become ubiquitous in industry and government. "Do not fold, spindle or mutilate," a generalized version of the warning that appeared on some punched cards (generally on those distributed as paper documents to be later returned for further machine processing, checks for example), became a motto for the post-World War II era.[10]

From the 1900s, into the 1950s, punched cards were the primary medium for data entry, data storage, and processing in institutional computing. According to the IBM Archives: "By 1937... IBM had 32 presses at work in Endicott, N.Y., printing, cutting and stacking five to 10 million punched cards every day."[12] Punched cards were even used as legal documents, such as U.S. Government checks[13] and savings bonds.

Magnetic Tape

The UNITYPER introduced magnetic tape for data entry in the 1950s. During the 1960s, the punched card was gradually replaced as the primary means for data storage by magnetic tape, as better, more capable computers became available. Mohawk Data Sciences introduced a magnetic tape encoder in 1965, a system marketed as a keypunch replacement which was somewhat successful, but punched cards were still commonly used for data entry and programming until the mid-1980s when the combination of lower cost magnetic disk storage, and affordable interactive terminals on less expensive minicomputers made punched cards obsolete for this role as well.[14] However, their influence lives on through many standard conventions and file formats. The terminals that replaced the punched cards, the IBM 3270 for example, displayed 80 columns of text in text mode, for compatibility with existing software. Some programs still operate on the convention of 80 text columns, although fewer and fewer do as newer systems employ graphical user interfaces with variable-width type fonts.

5.         Essinger, James (2004). Jacquard's Web: How a hand-loom led to the birth of the information age. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-280577-0.

7.         Trogemann, Georg (eds.); et al. (2001). Computing in Russia. Verlag. pp. 47–49. The article is by Gellius N. Povarov, titled Semen Nikolayevich Korsakov- Machines for the Comparison of Philosophical Ideas

10.       Lubar, Steven, 1991, Do Not Fold, Spindle or Mutilate: A Cultural History of the Punch Card, Smithsonian Institution

12.       "IBM Archive: Endicott card manufacturing". 03.ibm.com. Retrieved 2013-10-05.

13.       Lubar, Steven (1993). InfoCulture: The Smithsonian Book of Information Age Inventions. Houghton Mifflin. p. 302. ISBN 0-395-57042-5.

14.       Aspray (ed.), W. (1990). Computing before Computers. Iowa State University Press. p. 151. ISBN 0-8138-0047-1.