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Assessing the reaction of trade unions to innovation, this revisionist study asserts that unions do not, in fact, obstruct change as often as is commonly assumed. In a detailed analysis of industrial innovations and labor relations, Willman examines three major industries that have experienced abnormal problems in both the U.S. and Great Britain: the port, newspaper, and automotive industries. The explanation for this pattern isolates the close relationship--in the U. S. and Great Britain--between technological and organized change.
Study of collective bargaining adjustments to problems of technological change in the USA - covers provisions of relevant collective agreements in selected industries, and includes wage incentive and profit sharing experience. Bibliography p. 53.
Automation and technological change in USA - principal methods used by private sector employers to ease workers adaptation and reassignment of displaced employees. (1) avoiding layoff (attrition, retirement, reduction of hours of work, retraining,automation fund), (2) easing burden of unemployment (severance pay, maintenance of acquired rights, unemployment benefit), (3) facilitating employment opportunity (employment service, training programme, antidiscrimination policy). Case studies.
USA. Conference reports on adjustments made by private enterprises to mitigate the ill effects of automation and technological change. Retraining is most successful in the form of in plant training. Advance notice of displacement is important. Attrition and early retirement.