Title: The employment effects of automation in the automobile industry--World War II through 1960
Description: The book is an M.A. thesis written by Richard Ginnold for the M.A. in Economics at Washington State College(now university).
It studies the development of automatic equipment, e.g., transfer machines and more computer driven tools which revolutionized the assembly line in the auto industry. The book surveyed all relevant industry literature and did detailed calculations of various measures and ratios from  corporate financial statements for the Big 3 auto companies to find changes in relationships between labor and capital inputs and productivity over the period studied. Auto plant location is also discussed.
Subjects: Automation, Automobile industry workers, Economic aspects, Economic aspects of Automation
Places: United States