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Stages of Technical Advance, Industrial Segmentation and Employment: Computer-based Automation in Historical Perspective

In: Economics as Worldly Philosophy

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  • David R. Howell

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At the height of a national debate over automation almost three decades ago, Robert Heilbroner (1962) reviewed some 200 years of debate over the economic and social impact of industrial technology. With his usual ability to identify the most important questions. Heilbroner found in this literature little examination of what he termed their ‘historical aspect’ and stressed the need to investigate ‘whether there is visible a progressive change in the employment-granting possibilities of successive stages of technical advance’ (ibid., p. 23). Heilbroner defined these stages as shifts in the pattern of economic development, from agriculture to manufacturing and from the latter to services; he was particularly concerned about the implications of labour-saving technological advances in the service sectors of a service economy (1966, pp. 11–15).

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  • David R. Howell, 1993. "Stages of Technical Advance, Industrial Segmentation and Employment: Computer-based Automation in Historical Perspective," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Ron Blackwell & Jaspal Chatha & Edward J. Nell (ed.), Economics as Worldly Philosophy, chapter 4, pages 75-103, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-22572-9_4
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-22572-9_4
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    1. David R. Howell, 1993. "Technological Change and the Demand for Skills in the 1980s: Does Skill Mismatch Explain the Growth of Low Earnings?," Economics Working Paper Archive wp_101, Levy Economics Institute.
    2. David R. Howell, 1994. "The Collapse of Low-skill Male Earnings in the 1980s: Skill Mismatch or Shifting Wage Norms?," Economics Working Paper Archive wp_105, Levy Economics Institute.

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