strategy
Creating unemployment models
Synonyms:
Worker sacrifice Implementation:
Until recently, economists and politicians assumed that displaced factory workers would find new job opportunities in the service sector. Now, however, the service sector is also beginning to automate, eliminating vast numbers of white collar workers in the process. In banking, insurance and the wholesale and retails sectors, companies are deconstructing. They are eliminating layer after layer of management and infrastructure, replacing the traditional corporate pyramid and mass white collar workforces with small, highly skilled professional work teams, using state of the art software and telecommunication technologies. Even those companies that continue to use large numbers of white collar workers have changed the conditions of employment, transferring workers from permanent jobs to "just-in-time" employment, including leased, temporary and contingent work, in an effort to reduce wage and benefit packages, cut labour costs and increase profit margins. Narrower:
Supporting unemployed workersReducing length of time of unemploymentRestricting growth in employment in manufacturing industries Constrained by:
Ensuring continual employment Facilitates:
Sacking workers Facilitated by:
Restructuring industryArticulating future vision Problems:
Antagonism between employment policy and technical advanceCompulsory retirement
Reduction of workforce in enterprises
Redundancy of workers
Redundancy trauma
Unemployment
References:
Grais, Bernard: Lay-Offs and Short-Time Working in Selected OECD CountriesOrganisation for Economic Co-operation and Development: Job Losses in Major Industries: manpower strategy responsesUnited Nations Economic Commission for Europe: The Scope for Macroeconomic Polity on Alleviate Unemployment in Western Europe Subjects:
Social Activity → UnemploymentSocial Activity → Workers
Religious Practice → Rituals
Cybernetics → Modelling
Type Classification:
E: Emanations of other strategies Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
