On New Technologies and ‘Automation’

Phil Blackburn, Rod Coombs and Kenneth Green

Chapter 2 in Technology, Economic Growth and the Labour Process, 1985, pp 13-32 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The last few years have seen the introduction of several new technologies into industry and commerce which are said to have ‘automated’ many previously labour-intensive production activities. Yet such automation has not in any simple way been the cause of the high level of unemployment which the advanced capitalist countries are experiencing in the 1980s. That unemployment, although partly exacerbated in some countries by demand deficiency as a direct result of government policies, has structural causes. The slump of the early 1980s needs to be explained in terms of these structural features of the world economy before labour-displacing technological change can be satisfactorily analysed.

Keywords: Machine Tool; Technological Change; Technical Change; Labour Process; Technology Investment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1985
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-07517-1_2

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