# socially useful production > Ideas about labour process, skill, design and technology were at the heart of the movement for socially useful production. The movement sought a more democratic human relationship with technology that furnished tools for people to become architects in a deliberated societal vision, rather than perpetuating a situation where humans became scientifically managed bees tending machines in the service of capital > > – [[Technology Networks for Socially Useful Production]] > to present a vision of an alternative paradigm that prefigured a different role for technology in society … To do this it is necessary to produce both a critique of the current shape and aims of existing technologies together with examples of alternatives that could lead to social and technological change > > – [[Technology Networks for Socially Useful Production]] > Aspirations for socially useful production permitted alliances between workers and the new social movements for peace, environment, community activism and women. > > – [[Technology Networks for Socially Useful Production]] Seems relevant for [[Just transition]] and [[climate justice]].