Using case study data gathered between 1993 and 1996, the authors investigate how automation of information handling and materials handling affected employment distribution, skill acquisition, work activities, and compensation in 23 semiconductor plants in four countries. Information handling...

This review begins with a discussion of how technology affects wage structures. The literature reviewed is divided into two segments - studies of the impact of technological change on wages (and growing inequality), productivity, and employment and studies of the interrelationship of technology,...

This paper suggests that important improvements in the Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI) can be made by including government provisions of health care and education, and by directly calculating the contribution of natural resources and leisure, and adjusting for inequality, using a global norm...

For decades the semiconductor industry has been a driver of global economic growth and social change. Semiconductors, particularly the microchips essential to most electronic devices, have transformed computing, communications, entertainment, and industry. In Chips and Change, Clair Brown and...