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Automation and Society, Ewan Clague
Pages 26-32

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From page 26...
... In genera] , what we find in our picture of the employment situation in the United States is that all the net growth in employment in recent years has been in the service industries, which consist of three major groups.
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From page 27...
... Of course, these expansions in employment reflect, first, the growth in the population; and second, the increasing urbanization of the population. State and local government employment is heavily weighted with the increase in teachers and in other educational employment, as well as in the municipal services that are related to our increasing urbanization.
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From page 28...
... Men are moving into retirement earlier, in excess of our original projection. We are losing a substantial work force in the upper end of the age scale.
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From page 29...
... What intrigued me was the continuous strip mill then being put into operation. In about a decade, by the beginning of World War II, that process had spread throughout the industry.
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From page 30...
... An agreement that was reached in West Coast longshoring providing for jot protection in exchange for management freedom to make productivity improvements. The Department of Labor is now engaged in a study of East Coast and Gulf Coast longshoring as a result of the arbitration decision of Senator Morse's committee last year.
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From page 31...
... If we go back a couple of hundred years ago, the average length of time necessary for a complete turnover of the work force was approximately a quarter of a century. The average young boy entered the work force at age 15 and worked for 25 years.
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From page 32...
... We are on the verge of a great flood of youth into the labor market. We will need to be deeply concerned with how best to work these millions of youngsters into the labor force.
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