Southern Communities and Workers Benefit When Rural Factories Automate

Stuart Rosenfeld, Emil Malizia and MaryBeth Dugan

Rural America/ Rural Development Perspectives, 1989, vol. 06, issue 01

Abstract: Many manufacturers need to automate and computerize their operations to compete in both domestic and foreign markets. Rural southern manufacturers that have automated have realized benefits to their bottom lines, generally without reducing their workforce. Most, in fact, expanded. Workers are, however, often asked to take on different tasks than with a manual operation, and many of those tasks require different skills. Based on a survey of 51 rural plants in 12 Southern States.

Keywords: Community/Rural/Urban Development; Labor and Human Capital; Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1989
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.310586

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