Computer manufacturing: change and competition.
Part of a special issue on the relationship between computers and employment. A historical study of the U.S. computer industry shows that computer manufacturers add workers to their payrolls and then discard them when the products they manufacture undergo increased demand, technological change, and...
| Publicado en: | Monthly Labor Review Vol. 119; pp. 18 - 30 |
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US Department of Labor
August 1996
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