From job-less growth to growth-with-less-jobs: Employment and equity impact of technical and organisational change
Journal article, 1996

New technical innovations in the form of new production technologies are known to affect productivity, but organisational innovations and new ways of designing products have now been found to have a profound influence on productivity. These innovations have moved the industrialised countries into a stage in which industrial growth is accompanied by the continuous reduction in industrial employment. This development will greatly influence our society and put stringent demands on our political decision-making apparatus to avoid a growth in the 'wealth of nations' going hand-in-hand with a growth in poverty.

FMS

international diffusion

JIT

Motorola

Employment

organisational innovations

SAAB

IBM

TQM

production technique

Author

Sverker Alänge

Chalmers, Department of Industrial Dynamics

Staffan Jacobsson

Chalmers, Department of Industrial Dynamics

Per Lindberg

Chalmers, Department of Industrial Management and Economics

Science and Public Policy

0302-3427 (ISSN) 1471-5430 (eISSN)

Vol. 23 1 27-38

Subject Categories

Other Mechanical Engineering

Work Sciences

Economics

Other Social Sciences not elsewhere specified

Driving Forces

Sustainable development

Innovation and entrepreneurship

Areas of Advance

Production

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10/7/2017