Abstract

Abstract During the 1980's, the introduction of computer-directed technologies has been, in many cases, accompanied by changes in work environments and new skill requirements, especially among production workers. The adjustment of skills to new technologies was difficult in countries or industries where adversarial industrial relations prevailed, because the state, labor, and employers could not agree on a basic training framework. In this paper, the French and American machine tool industries are selected as case studies.

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