ferent risks taking existing workers off the production line for training purposes, thus disrupting production, or training existing workers who may not have the skills to learn how to operate the machinery (i.e., who are untrainable). And if the workers are not trainable, then they are likely to lose their jobs.
Shaiken says that "displacement due to robotics is particularly troublesome because of the lack of employment alternatives for the workers whose jobs are eliminated" (169). But the factory, too, has claims, and if it does not automate, then it will be left behind by those doll factories that do automate and that can handle production quickly. This will be true even if the factory has to hire computer repair technicians from time to time. The risk of declining worker morale during installation and of the
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