American jobs and the changing industrial base
By: edited by Eileen L. Collins and Lucretia Dewey Tanner.
Contributors: Collins, Eileen L.; Tanner, Lucretia Dewey.
Publisher: Ballinger Pub. Co.
Published: 1984
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
Subjects: Labor supply -- Effect of technological innovations on -- United States; Occupations -- United States -- Forecasting
Notes: Includes bibliographies and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Eileen L. Collins; title: High tech and the structural employment problems of the 1980s / Eileen Appelbaum; title: Automation and its effect on employment and income / Faye Duchin; title: Technical advance and other sources of employment change in basic industry / Robert A. Levy, Marianne Bowes, and James M. Jondrow; title: Modernizing the federal government / Lucretia Dewey Tanner; title: Effect of technology on the distribution of labor income / John Vrooman; title: Job design within changing patterns of technical development / Peter S. Albin; title: Industry perspectives on adjustment to economic change / Kenneth McLennan; title: A labor perspective on technological change / Markley Roberts; title: Worker adjustment to changing technology / Larry M. Blair.