The Effect Of Automation On Job Opportunities

Author

Tommie Lola Brown, Prairie View Agricultural and Mechanical College

Date of Award

8-1956

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Arts

Degree Discipline

Business Education

Abstract

The intense concern of workers with the effect of automation on jobs began as early as 1912 when an article by Robert Johnstone Wheeler, now a resident of Allentown, Pennsylvania, appeared in the Industrial Review magazine.

Showing the number of hand blowers was dropping steadily as more automatic machines were installed in glass bottle manufacturing plants, Wheeler also described the economic effects of this displacement of workers.

"The automatic machine takes no apprentices," he wrote. "It does not eat or wear anything. It has no wife or children to support."

"Who will buy its products in the coming years when the workers are done away with? Who will feed and clothe the millions, workless, because of automation? Shall man cease to exist because he has per infected tools of production?

Committee Chair/Advisor

A. S. Arnold

Committee Member

P. A. Jackson

Committee Member

Humphrey

Committee Member

G. Stafford

Committee Member

Haughton

Publisher

Prairie View A&M College

Rights

Date of Digitization

3/25/2022

Contributing Institution

John B Coleman Library

City of Publication

Prairie View

MIME Type

Application/PDF

Recommended Citation

Brown, T. L. (1956). The Effect Of Automation On Job Opportunities. Retrieved from https://digitalcommons.pvamu.edu/pvamu-theses/1413