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Peer reviewedMather, J. – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 1994
This article discusses the impact of technology on the formation of skills and the career advancement of persons who are blind or visually impaired. It concludes that dependence on technology (computerization and automation) and the mechanistic aspects of jobs may trap blind and visually impaired workers in occupations with narrow career paths…
Descriptors: Automation, Blindness, Career Development, Computers
Download full textLevin, Henry M.; Rumberger, Russell W. – 1983
The changes to be effected by high technology in both projected employment growth and existing jobs seem to require significant changes in the American educational system. However, government estimates for the period 1978-90 suggest that employment growth will favor jobs that require little or no training beyond the high school level (for…
Descriptors: Automation, Education Work Relationship, Employment Opportunities, Employment Projections
BCEL Newsletter for the Business Community, 1988
Critics call computerized innovations and other changes in the workplace examples of the employers'"dumbing down" of jobs for illiterate workers. Others disagree and say the changes free workers from routine, monotonous tasks and permit them to learn more complex procedures and to take on more responsibility. Findings of a survey of business…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Automation, Computer Oriented Programs, Efficiency
SULTAN, PAUL; PRASOW, P. – 1964
THIS SAMPLING OF COLLECTED TESTIMONY WAS INTENDED TO ILLUSTRATE SOME OF THE DIMENSIONS OF MANPOWER PROBLEMS FACED EVEN IN EXPANDING LABOR MARKETS. A REVIEW OF SELECTED "STRUCTURAL" ASPECTS OF EMPLOYMENT ANALYSIS GAVE PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE IMPACT OF AUTOMATION ON EMPLOYMENT WHEN CONSIDERATION WAS GIVEN, NOT TO THE AMOUNT OF LABOR DEMANDED,…
Descriptors: Automation, Educational Needs, Employment, Employment Patterns
Werneke, Diane – 1983
As labor-saving, efficiency-increasing electronic technology is introduced into offices, jobs held by women will change. Although some jobs may be lost, most job loss will be absorbed by attrition and reduction of waste. Fewer new openings may occur in office jobs, however, especially in a recessionary economy. On the other hand, the jobs that are…
Descriptors: Adults, Automation, Clerical Occupations, Computers
New York State Dept. of Labor, Albany. Research and Statistics Office. – 1969
The effects of technological change on the manpower and training needs of New York State industry were studied in a survey of 281 Industrial situations. The study was designed to help answer questions about the effects of factory and related technological change in displacing workers, in creating recruitment and training needs, and in altering the…
Descriptors: Automation, Career Change, Educational Needs, Employment Level
