Work Force

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that loss of manufacturing jobs in the U.S. because of foreign competition, cheap labor markets abroad, and automation.
In fact, most retail outlets have used electronic bar codes and scanners to increased the efficiency of cashier. Therefore, it absolutely reduced certain number of position. Many industry analysts are predicting that electronic home shopping will replace more and more of the large-sized retail market. However, it's not just blue-collar jobs that are eliminating. As a result of advances in automation, more and more white-collar and service work are taken over by machines. For examples, automatic teller machines replaced nearly 25 percent of banks in the U.S. by the year 2000; secretaries are declining gradually as computers, e-mail, and fax machines produced.
On the contrary, optimists counter with the argument that additional employment will be provided by the new products and services of the high-technology revolution and they point to the fact that ...

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