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- Title
LABOR IMMOBILITY AND TECHNOLOGICAL UNEMPLOYMENT.
- Authors
Dankert, C. E.
- Abstract
The article presents a discussion on labor immobility and its relationship with technological unemployment. The introduction of new and more efficient machines, improvements in plant methods and organization, the shifting of industry from one community or region to another, the horizontal or vertical merging of separate plants or companies, all of these changes, commonly referred to as technological changes, not only save labor but bring about numerous modifications in both the occupational and the geographical grouping of the laborers. This labor mobility as a factor in technological unemployment will take on added significance in the years to come. While it is true that a number of developments, such as Old Age and Survivors' Insurance, the leveling of skills, and the increasing use of the automobile, will tend to pull in the other direction, their combined influence will likely be insufficient to overcome. Under any condition, the proper amount and the proper type of mobility in the labor market will be achieved only through positive action directed specifically toward that end.
- Subjects
EFFECT of technological innovations on labor supply; TECHNOLOGICAL unemployment; UNEMPLOYMENT; EMPLOYMENT; OCCUPATIONAL mobility; LABOR turnover; LABOR supply; LABOR mobility; LABOR market
- Publication
Social Forces, 1941, Vol 19, Issue 3, p426
- ISSN
0037-7732
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/2570748