The choices to be made

Gunnar Adler-Karlsson

Social Science & Medicine, 1987, vol. 25, issue 2, 115-117

Abstract: If we are to avoid unemployment when technology increases productivity, we have choices. We must increase our level of material living (more private luxury gadgets or more public luxury services) and/or decrease our total working time. These choices reflect social power relations. Capital owners and leaders of labour unions normally endorse the standard increase solution. The unemployed are for the reduction in hours, hoping to get a share of the labour time. Studies reported here indicate that a solid majority of ordinary men and women also seem to prefer the reduction in working time solution.

Keywords: unemployment; leisure; standard-of-living; luxury; technology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1987
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