A broad understanding of how workers perceive technology as something new and trade unions as old structures are emerging from the technicist viewpoint. This article pinpoints the root of the problems and how it can be rectified through paradigms such as actor-network theory. This article also informs us about the correlation between technology and other factors such as gender, race, political economy and skills of labour. Ultimately the author gives a holistic picture of the relation between computation and nature of work, where he defines any new technology should be called as computation.