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 27-38Subject Categories
Other Mechanical Engineering
Work Sciences
Economics
Other Social Sciences not elsewhere specified
Driving Forces
Sustainable development
Innovation and entrepreneurship
Areas of Advance
Production