Looking forward to reading this (recommendation of @gileslane), by the late Mike Cooley, engineer, academic, shop steward, activist behind the Lucas plan en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Cool… 
NB: this book (from 1980) actually coined '*human-centred* systems', as an explicitly socialist and socio-technical political movement centering the needs of the people who make and use technology. A far cry from the kind of human-centred design critiqued by Don Norman (2005)
Some highlights:
Some like to think computers should do the calculating, while people do the creativity and value judgements. But the two can't just be combined "like chemical compounds". It doesn't scale.
Some like to think computers should do the calculating, while people do the creativity and value judgements. But the two can't just be combined "like chemical compounds". It doesn't scale.
Oh look, an online duty of care! Modeled even more closely on health and safety regs
Quantification = fascism (a brilliant French mathematician says so)
Why are we building image recognition models when the best image recognisers are unemployed humans? (Or will be, once they've finished labeling all the training data on mTurk)
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