| AutorIn 1: | ||
| Feigenbaum, James | ||
| AutorIn 2: | ||
| Gross, Daniel P. | ||
| Titel: | ||
| Answering the Call of Automation: How the Labor Market Adjusted to the Mechanization of Telephone Operation | ||
| Ort: | ||
| Cambridge, MA | ||
| Verlag: | ||
| National Bureau of Economic Research | ||
| Jahr: | ||
| 2020 | ||
| Reihe: | ||
| NBER Working Paper 28061 | ||
| Abstract: | ||
| "(... )Telephone operation was among the most common jobs for young American women in the early 1900s. Between
1920 and 1940, AT&T adopted mechanical switching technology in over half of the U.S. telephone network, replacing
manual operation. Although automation eliminated most of these jobs, it did not affect future cohorts’ overall
employment: the decline in operators was counteracted by reinstating demand in middle-skill clerical jobs and lower-
skill service jobs. Using a new genealogy-based census-linking method, we show that incumbent telephone operators
were most impacted, and a decade later more likely to be in lower-paying occupations or have left the labor force. (...)"
[Automatisierung, Digitalisierung, Technologisierung, Arbeitsforschung, Arbeitssoziologie, Arbeitswelt, IKT, Analoge Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien, Berufsbildungsforschung, Qualifikationen, Qualifikationsbedarfe, Berufssoziologie, Wirtschaftsgeschichte, Mediengeschichte] | ||
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