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1. Manpower and Process Control.

Subjects
*BLUE collar workers, *INDUSTRIAL technicians, *TECHNOLOGICAL innovations, *PROCESS control systems
Abstract

The article presents information on the report "Outlook for Computer Process Control," prepared by the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). The report discusses the effects of computers on employment of office personnel. According to the report, no signs have been found of the long-feared technological unemployment caused by the use of computers. The BLS report covered applications in six process industries. They included: control of ammonia and ethylene processes in chemical plants; basic oxygen and hot strip mill operations in steel mills; catalytic cracking and reforming, and crude distillation units in petroleum refineries; electric generating equipment in power plants; and papermaking machines in paper plants. The study found that improved cost benefit ratios were the chief incentive for installation of process control at all survey plants. These outweighed heavy initial investments in time and money, ranging from $200,000 to $1,5 million, and from 2 to 21 years for individual projects.

Published
1971

2. SUBJECTIVE POWERLESSNESS IN THE UNITED STATES: SOME LONGITUDINAL TRENDS.

Author

Guest, Avery M.

Subjects
*SOCIAL sciences, *SOCIAL change, *BLUE collar workers, *EDUCATION, *ACADEMIC achievement
Abstract

The article discusses issues related to subjective powerlessness in the U.S. The paper focuses on changes since 1952 in citizen efficacy or feelings of control over government for various sub-groups in the U.S. population such as blacks, blue collar workers, Southerners, Jews, young and old people. As with most issues in the study of social change, there is widespread disagreement on trends in citizen efficacy for industrial societies such as the U.S. Most theory predicts trends in objective powerlessness, rather than subjective powerlessness, although it is possible that trends in objective powerlessness do not match trends in subjective powerlessness. Within the U.S. at each point of observation, powerlessness does not vary much by stratum, except when education and race are used as indicators. And within the white population, some of the differences are heavily explained by educational differentials. It therefore seems fair to conclude that white subordinate interest groups are not oriented toward government as a result of what would seem to be objective powerlessness but more on the basis of their educational achievement.

Published
1974

3. SOME ECONOMIC ASPECTS OF EMBOURGEOISEMENT IN AUSTRALIA.

Author

Parsler, R.

Subjects
*IDEOLOGY, *EMBOURGEOISEMENT, *SOCIAL systems, *BLUE collar workers, *WHITE collar workers, *INCOME
Abstract

This paper presents the first findings of a survey carried out in Melbourne, Australia. It attempts to test hypotheses based on the embourgeoisement thesis, and its variations, in a social system with a strong equalitarian ideology and compulsory arbitration for all sections of the work force. It assesses the economic differences between white collar and blue collar workers and also the difference between these groups and a middle class group. It also compares the Australian situation with America and Britain. It finds a significant difference between blue collar and white collar income rates, total income medians and career income medians, as against the apparent near parity of the situation in Britain and America. These differences are not mitigated by wives' earnings or income from other sources. There is an almost complete dichotomy between these groups and the middle class group. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
1970
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