Technological Trends and Employment: Basic consumer goods, Volume 1Research papers on the effects of technological change on employment trends in the UK shoe and leather industry, tobacco industry, textile industry and clothing industry from 1946 - covers productivity, industrial investment, market and industrial structure, competition, occupational structure, export performance and import penetration, etc.; includes a simulation economic model of technical change and employment. Graphs, references, statistical tables. |
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