International Marxist Group Archive

Magazines, bulletins and booklets of the IMG and its forerunners, 1961–1984

Call to slow down automation

The Bulletin Vol. 3, No. 10, 23 September 1963 · p. 10 of the scan · 78 words

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The Financial Times of 19/9/63 reported "The rate f automation in the “estern world should be slowed to avoid violent social upheaval, Sir Geoffrey Vickers, V.C., tho British social scipntist suggested yosterday. He told an Ontario Government Conference on Automation and Social Change in Toronto that the further growth of automation conld have umusually violent repercussions, Unemployment caused by automation will be more disruptive and more of a secial scandal that the mass unemployment of the 1930's,he predicted,™

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