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Dr. Hicks challenges the common view that competitive pres-
sures and technological change are destroying American basic
manufacturing industries. He stresses that most new technolo-
gies seek to correct inefficient production arrangements, not to
eliminate whole industries. Indeed, new technologies often facili-
tate industrial renewal.
                                      From the foreword

           Automation Technology
           and Industrial Renewal
           Adjustment Dynamics in the
           U.S. Metalworking Sector
                  DONALD A. HICKS

How do technological changes spread through our basic
industries? In a time when U.S. international competitive-
ness has lost its edge, this question ranks among the most
important facing our economy. The author examines pat-
terns of technological upgrading in one of the oldest in-
dustrial complexes, metalworking, and finds develop-
ments that contradict widespread beliefs. High-technolopy
industries, for example, are not replacing the smokestack
sector-the two are mutually reinforcing, not mutually
exclusive.
    Donald A. Hicks is associate professor of sociology
and political economy at the School of Social Sciences, the
University of Texas at Dallas. He served on the Senior
Urban Policy Staff of the President's Commission for a
National Agenda for the Eighties and has written exten-
sively on urban and industrial policies.


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