Jim Davis, Thomas Hirschl and Michael Stack (eds.), Cutting Edge: Technology, Information, Capitalism and Social Revolution, London: Verso, 1997, paper £15.00, vii+304 pp.

Giovanni Dosi, David J. Teece and Josef Chytry (eds.), Technology, Organization and Competitiveness: Perspectives on Industrial and Corporate Change, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998, £45.00, ix+345 pp.

Michael Dunkerley, The Jobless Economy? Computer Technology in the World of Work, Cambridge: Polity Press, 1996, paper £11.95, viii+168 pp.

M. David Ermann, Mary B. Williams and Michele S. Schauf (eds.), Computers, Ethics and Society (2nd Edition), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997, paper £15.99, viii+340 pp.

Robin Mansell and Roger Silverstone (eds.), Communication by Design: The Politics of Information and Communication Technologies, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996, paper £14.99, xiv+278 pp.

The significance of technology shows no signs of giving up its claim to pre-eminence amongst recent book titles and this selection covers a wide variety of approaches from the ‘popular’ (Dunkerley) to the ‘radical’ (Davis et al.) to the ‘learned academic’ (Mansell and Silverstone, and Dosi et al.) to the textbook (Ermann et al.). The markets for these books are quite different but they all have something of value to say to the interested reader.