Mike Cooley

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Mike Cooley

Mike Cooley, also known as Michael Joseph Edward Cooley, was an Irish-born engineer, writer, and trade union leader. He is best known for his work on the social effects of technology, "Socially Useful Production", and "Human Centred Systems". In the late 1970s, Cooley was involved in workplace activism at the British company Lucas Aerospace. In 1981, he received the Right Livelihood Award for designing and promoting the theory and practice of human-centred, socially useful production.