Chapters on Machinery and Labor: III. Machinery and the Displacement of Skill

George E. Barnett

The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1925, vol. 40, issue 1, 111-133

Abstract: Definition of displacement of skill, 112. — The factors determining the amount of displacement, 112. — Rapidity of introduction of the machine, 113. — The mobility of labor within the trade, 117. — Effect of the machine in increasing demand for the product, 121. — The labor-displacing power of the machine, 126. — Extent to which the skill of the handworker is useful in the machine process, 127. — Variety of combination of factors, 132.

Date: 1925
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