Unemployment Attitudes and Training
Abstract
“The destiny of the great majority of this planet's doubled and trebled population might be to live unemployed in shanty towns, subsisting on inadequate dole which would be given grudgingly by the productive minority, who would themselves be living in fear of being massacred by the resentful unemployed majority…”. Toynbee's frightening scenario seems remote from today's reality, but “mass unemployment” is even now seen by our politicians as the nation's most pressing problem. Despite short‐term palliative measures, it seems clear from emerging trends that unemployment, caused by inexorable technological progress and the consequent reduction of the need for human involvement in work processes will double or treble before the end of this century.
Citation
Jones, M. (1979), "Unemployment Attitudes and Training", Journal of European Industrial Training, Vol. 3 No. 3, pp. 25-26. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb002314
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
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