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IN a paper on “The Place and Function of the Administrative and Technical Worker in the New Forms of Economic Structure” before Section F (Economic Science and Statistics) of the British Association on September 14, Mr. S. W. Smith directed attention to the growth and change of personnel which have accompanied the changes in the structure of industry and in industrial practice and technique in the last thirty-five years, particularly since the War. The mechanization and rationalization of industry have been accompanied by a significant growth in the importance of the technicians and scientific workers and the administrative staff, with a simultaneous reduction in the significance and proportion of unskilled labour and of controlling and directing owners of business. The bulk of the reorganization and modernizing work involved in the transformation of industry has been carried out by the technical and administrative staffs, and their importance has been further enhanced by the marked tendency for the proportion of professional, technical and administrative staffs to increase steadily in proportion to the remainder.
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Administration and Technology in Industry. Nature 138, 653–654 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/138653a0
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