luddites!

[Douglas Taylor]

I remember the very bitter labor union battles the typesetters had with the 
Washington Post in the 1960's.  It was a fight over 'computerizing' the 
typesetting process, come to think of it the computers were probably 
PDP-8's.  [just to keep it on topic]
A number of people lost their jobs to technology, but what a technology!

Doug

At 08:31 PM 10/13/2005, you wrote:
>Brad Parker wrote:
>
>>They were anti-loosing-your-job-due-to-technology.  They didn't think it
>>was right that 10 people working should become 3 people working just
>>because a new machine was installed...
>>
>I can't think of were computers really had the most inpact other than 
>word-processing and accounting. I think it was more
>the USA was not as inovative in small things but only large scale
>things.
>>(and, I think they had a point.  I think economists are all smoking
>>really good dope when they talk about mythical 'productivity gains')
>>
>>
>productivity gains =  more $$ for management from my view point.
>
>>-brad
>>