Employment lessons from the electronics industry. (employment trends)

From: Monthly Labor Review | Date: February 1, 1986| Author: Alic, John A.; Harris, Martha Caldwell | Copyright information

Employment lessons from the electronics industry In the U.S. electronics industry, competition--domestic as well as international--has led to increases in labor productivity through changes in product design and automation and to transfers of manufacturing operations to low-wage developing countries. For example, in the consumer electronics industry, annual output of color television sets per production worker in the United States increased from 150 in 1971 to 560 in 1981. Total ou...

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