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AN Advisory Committee on Management (International Labour Organization) at its meeting on May 2 and 3 studied the practical methods which industrial undertakings could adopt to alleviate the immediate social consequences of the elimination of surplus works or technical equipment and of the rapid and extensive mechanization of production (Geneva: International Labour Organization). The Committee drew up a list of measures which might be taken by organizations obliged to reduce their staff in consequence of progressive mechanization or other industrial changes. These measures are classified into five groups according to whether they are preliminary and designed to postpone or minimize or avoid dismissals as, for example, by reduction of hours or transfer of workers to other services; those intended to systematize inevitable dismissals, taking account of all psychological and moral issues involved; those intended to help Workers who are dismissed; measures of adjustment among the remaining staff; and general measures involving co-operation with staff representatives, other undertakings and official or private organizations.
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Technical Progress and Unemployment. Nature 142, 1113 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/1421113a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/1421113a0