To what extent is the use of technology in the work place having a negative impact on society?
...h an important issue yet, but it must be taken into account. Since almost all labours in the modern society are required to have some level of knowledge in handling technologies, this decreases demand in low-educated labours. These low-educated labours would be fired and are forced to be unemployed. This is an example of structural unemployment. The employment structures show the sector of jobs labours were in at different years. The two pie charts below show the employment structures of the EU at different time period, at 1979 and 2001. These charts are from the European Commission – “Deindustrialisation: Analysis and evidence”. This is by Jean-Paul Mingasson who was from the Director-General. This is a reliable source and provides objective knowledge since it is a government project. The employment structures reflect the decrease in both primary (agriculture) and secondary (manufacturing and industry) sectors. This shows deindustrialisation. This graph shows the decrease in industry jobs including textile and clothing from 1979 to 2001. This chart is collected from the same source as well (European Commission). The average unemployment rate had been increasing in some of the most developed countries. Although there are many factors that could lead to this increase in unemployment rate, one of the factors could be due to technology. As shown before, there are signs of deindustrialisation in developed countries. Deindustrialisation may cause this increase in unemployment rate since there is a higher demand on technology, and therefore a decrease in demand of labours. This chart is from the U.S. department of Labour, which is a government website and therefore is reliable. These data are objective data. Japan is one of the most developed countries in the world, especially in technology. Japanese manufacturing firms had been developing technology which increases production. However, this may be a reason for the trend of employment in manufacturing firms in recent years. This table shows that the number of employees in Japanese manufacturing firms in recent years had been decreasing. From years 1999 to 2001, the number of employees decreased from 9,377,750 to 8,866,220. This data is collected from “The Japanese Machinery Federation” and is a nationwide organization of the Japanese machinery and engineering industry. This source is reliable and therefore these data are objective, dependable data. Family: In history, work labourers are usually men. These workers work on agriculture and mining. These jobs all require strength and therefore it is mostly men who work, while women stay at home as housewives. However, as technologies are used in workplace, the jobs rely mainly on education and qualifications. Women are physically weaker than men, therefore now women can have equal opportunities as men, as physical strength is less important in working. These two points are stated from a website called “www.gendercenter.org”. This website also states that it collects its data from “U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Bulletin 2307”. This is a government website which contains dependable objective data. These two statements show that the employment number of women, married and unmarried, both increased rapidly. However, this change in women’ status affects the t...