The Technical Tools of Statistics
1965; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 19; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/00031305.1965.10479711
ISSN1537-2731
Autores Tópico(s)Engineering Education and Pedagogy
Resumoincreased significantly. But, more and more, the early years were combined with schooling and often started out part-time; and the older years also represented a time of increasing part time work, often as a pathway to total retirement, often as a combination with retirement status. 3) Post World War II America has seen these latter trends accelerate among men. Total labor input between 1950 and 1960 fell, as a matter of fact, under the double impact of the first decline in work life expectancy this century and a significant upturn in part-time labor force activity at both ends of the age scale. 4) Currenttechnological developments as well as trends in the labor management field portend a continuation, if not an acceleration of the past decade's trends. Thus, the impact of automation for the future lies not so much in a great avalanche of complete time, bounded by the end of working life and life itself, as in greater opportunities for a blend of work and leisure at both ends of our working lives. The very increase in automation will support this; the consistent and persevering move towards the professional and other white collar jobs as well as the skilled trades, and the move toward the service industries will continue and reinforce these patterns. So does the post war accelerated rise in educational attainment of our population and labor force. 5) What we need most of all in the years ahead to consummate and take advantage of these trends towards more education and training at the beginning and more retirement at the end, combined with greater inputs of part-time work at both extremes of the age scale is a continuation of high rates of economic growth and job generation and programs for moving the unemployed and poor into a posture where they too can become part of the mainstream of gainful activity.
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