ABSTRACT
If one observes the modern industrial town, one cannot help noting that many advances in technology and economic or ganization have helped to establish a high standard of living for workers as a whole but at the same time have created occupational havoc for large sections of the working class. The new prosperity is accompanied by structural alterations and deficiencies that threaten the sources of sustenance for many workmen who had hitherto benefited by technological progress. Automation, plant closures, occupational obsolescence, as well as cyclical recessions continue to generate short-and long-term unemployment, espe cially among workmen in primary and sec ondary industries.2
