What Future for Employment?

Abstract

Contemporary society is increasingly confronted with the socio‐economic problems generated by what has been described as the end of industrial society and its transition to a post‐industrial society. The most immediate symptom of this transition process is the high rate of unemployment being experienced by all the advanced industrialised nations. The aggregate percentage of the labour force unemployed in April 1978 in Canada was 8.6; in Italy 6.8; in Belgium 10.4; in Great Britain 5.8; in West Germany 4.4; and in the United States 6.0.

Citation

Thornton, P. and Wheelock, V. (1979), "What Future for Employment?", Employee Relations, Vol. 1 No. 1, pp. 3-6. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb054920