Technology In Canada

Employment and Technology in Canada Canada's economy has changed throughout the course of history regarding their change in technology which revolutionized the country drastically. Although it revolutionized the country, it brought Canada through many changes in both good ways and bad ways. Canada's workforce in the economy has also changed significantly regarding their employment over the years in terms of, the industrialization and mechanization of primary industries in the early 20th century, the construction of the mega projects in the post-war years, and through the automation and production up to the present.

To begin with, the industrialization and mechanization of primary industries has changed Canada's employment in many ways. With the invention of new technology on farms such as, "The gasoline tractor, combine harvester and new specialized machinery, like row cultivators for tobacco and corn crops..."(1) created more efficient ways of farming meaning that farming required less farmers on the fields. Due to the need of fewer workers on farms, the unemployed farmers moved to cities where factories hired more people to produce wartime industrial goods during the war (2). Although there were few farmers left, they began to use more and more machinery for planting and harvesting due to the rising demand for farm goods as

To begin with, the microchip was invented with the first microcomputer in 1973 which revolutionized the business world drastically. Personal computers then began to appear in homes and the computers changed many things like banking systems, assembly plants, and business offices which replaced jobs like bank tellers in the bank. On the other hand, the invention of industrial robots allowed jobs to be done more efficiently than the average factory