Automation and the labour force of the future

Abstract

I was discussing the Henniker‐Heaton report on day release with a most fervent, earnest young engineering managing director. We talked about the target increase of 250,000 more juveniles over a period of five years, the target set by the committee. We recalled that a similar target had been set in 1956 in the White Paper and that it had not been achieved. The engineer gripped me by the arm and said, excitedly and with a feeling of intense impatience at society for being so dense as not to see his point, ‘Of course it was not achieved. How could it be. There was no feedback’.

Citation

WELLENS, J. (1964), "Automation and the labour force of the future", Education + Training, Vol. 6 No. 10, pp. 490-503. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb015482