# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mike-cooley
# Generated: 2026-08-12T20:00:04.312Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mike-cooley"
name: "Mike Cooley"
slug: "mike-cooley"
description: "Michael Joseph Edward Cooley was an Irish-born engineer, writer and trade union leader, best known for his work on the social effects of technology, \"Socially Useful Production\" and \"Human Centred Systems\". He was involved in workplace activism at the British company Lucas Aerospace in the late 1970s. In 1981, he was a recipient of the Right Livelihood Award for \"designing and promoting the theory and practice of human-centred, socially useful production.\""
tagline: "Irish engineer and trade union leader (1934–2020)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b5/Michael_Joseph_Edward_Cooley.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1934-03-23"
deathDate: "2020-09-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.78
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.680742666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Cooley_(engineer)"
    title: "Mike Cooley (engineer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%83_%D9%83%D9%88%D9%84%D9%8A_(%D9%85%D9%87%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B3)"
    title: "مايك كولي (مهندس)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Cooley"
    title: "Mike Cooley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Cooley"
    title: "Mike Cooley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Cooley"
    title: "Mike Cooley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Cooley"
    title: "Mike Cooley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1933097"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump