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October 1983

Instruments to measure electricity: industry’s productivity growth rises

Barbara Bingham

Growth in labor productivity has been spurred by the spread of automated production machinery and increased use of integrated circuits in instruments; nonproduction workers-professional and technical-are a growing proportion of industry employment.

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