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The Employment Consequences of Technological Change

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  • © 1983

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Editors:
  1. Derek L. Bosworth

    1. Loughborough University of Technology, UK

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction

    • Derek L. Bosworth
    Pages 1-12

  3. Theoretical Approaches to the Effects of Technical Change on Unemployment

    • Athar Hussain
    Pages 13-24

  4. Technological Change, Demand and Employment

    • Douglas Jones
    Pages 25-51

  5. The Nature of Unemployment under Technical Progress

    • David Deaton, Peter Nolan
    Pages 52-65

  6. Employment Policy for Balanced Growth under an Input Constraint

    • Daniel Weiserbs, A. Kervyn, Alan Ingham
    Pages 66-81

  7. New Technology, Demand and Employment

    • Paul Stoneman
    Pages 82-96

  8. The Diffusion of Microelectronic Technology in South-East England

    • Tom Bourner, Howard Davies, Val Lintner, A. Woods, M. Woods
    Pages 97-109

  9. Employment Projections and Structural Change

    • John Clark
    Pages 110-125

  10. Embodied Technical Change and the Age of Capital: Empirical Evidence for Manufacturing Establishments

    • Stuart Wabe, Derek L. Bosworth
    Pages 126-142

  11. A Model for Long-run Forecasts of Employment in Industrial Sectors

    • Sören Wibe
    Pages 143-156

  12. Consequences of Technological Change: the Case of the Shipbuilding Industry

    • Richard Harrison
    Pages 157-173

  13. The Trade Union Response to New Technology

    • Bernard James
    Pages 174-188

  14. Responses to the Employment Consequences of Technological Change

    • Linda Hesselman, Ruth Spellman
    Pages 189-207

  15. Innovations in Work Organisation as a Response to the Employment Implications of Technological Change

    • Derek L. Bosworth, Peter Dawkins
    Pages 208-223

  16. Back Matter

    Pages 224-236
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Loughborough University of Technology, UK

    Derek L. Bosworth

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Employment Consequences of Technological Change

  • Editors: Derek L. Bosworth

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-06089-4

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Economics & Finance Collection, Economics and Finance (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Derek L. Bosworth 1983

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-06091-7Published: 01 January 1983

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-06089-4Published: 18 June 1983

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 236

  • Topics: Labor Economics

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