Peter F. Drucker Boxed Set (8 Books) (The Drucker Library)

CHAPTER THIRTY

Planning for Redundant Workers

THE PLIGHT OF CHRYSLER will create a new demand for redundancy planning—that is, anticipating structural and technological changes in the economy and preparing to retain and find new jobs for workers who will have to be laid off.

During the next few years this demand will be intensified by the almost predictable closing of a number of steel mills that will become technically obsolete beyond repair. Indeed, labor unions are already proposing that Congress impose redundancy planning on industry.

Business, predictably, is fighting these proposals and may succeed in delaying their enactment. But for once ...