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- Title
TECHNOLOGICAL UNEMPLOYMENT.
- Authors
White, R. Clyde
- Abstract
Technological unemployment is that form of unemployment which results from the introduction of labor-saving machinery. The writer is concerned mainly with that kind of unemployment which is due to the improvement in machine and administrative processes, thus requiring fewer workers to produce the same quantity of material goods. In order to put the recent discussion of technological unemployment in its proper perspective, attention should be directed to certain preliminary considerations. The history of material culture reveals the fact that the use of labor-saving devices has a very long record. Such simple tools as the inclined plane, the wheel and axle, and the pulley are very ancient. The rate of growth of population is another fact which has a bearing on the possibility of cumulative technological unemployment. If the population of the United States should increase indefinitely at the same rate which it had in the early decades of the nineteenth century, the population would perhaps be in the neighborhood of 700,000,000 in the year 2000.
- Subjects
UNITED States; EFFECT of technological innovations on labor supply; TECHNOLOGICAL unemployment; UNEMPLOYMENT; STRUCTURAL unemployment; MACHINERY
- Publication
Social Forces, 1931, Vol 9, Issue 4, p572
- ISSN
0037-7732
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/3006155