atw: Re: The decreasingly meaningful authoring experience
- From: Peter G Martin <peter.martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2005 14:49:08 +1000
warren.lewington@xxxxxxxxx:
On Thu, 9 Jun 2005 12:16:53 +0800, you wrote:
> BJA, you are in fact absolutely correct.
> A move away from one industry does create something
> new. The problem is whether the previously employed
> specialists in the old industry can be redeployed to
> the new ones.
> Generally the answer is no, they can't. Consequently
> they are discarded from the labour market.
> Teaching old dogs new tricks is the hardest part of
> the shifts we see in industry.
>
And one might question the economies involved of a factory
tooled up to produce, say, 200 tractors per annum, employing
1400 factory hands -- whether trained or not. Otherwise,
presumably market forces mean the price of the tractor would
not justify the labour substitution ?
There may indeed be a transfer of labour from one area to
another, but it's not likely, is it, to be a one-for-one
transfer ?
--Peter M
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