Work Study Volume 21 Issue 2

Abstract

SOME twenty years gone by I was inspanned into a movement to explain automation to the nation which was said to be apprehensive of its effects on full employment. In vain I explained that automation was industry's response to labour shortage and that unemployment was a consequence of economic not technical policies; that it was impossible to start new industries with an only marginally increasing work force, unless it could be staffed by those deployed from industries whose productivity was rising.

Citation

(1972), "Work Study Volume 21 Issue 2", Work Study, Vol. 21 No. 2, pp. 3-65. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb048276