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Last year was marked by what appears to have been an unprecedented improvement in the productivity of manufacturing industries. The previous half-decade was distinguished by a productivity slowdown. This article considers recent movements in productivity at Industrial Order level, and reports the results of a survey, carried out at the end of 1981, on the factors which had been important in determining companies' productivity growth through the seventies.

This article examines the movement of output per employee in one hundred and sixty industries between 1968 and 1979. It concludes that the slowdown in productivity and output growth rates observed for aggregate manufacturing industry since 1973 was fairly typical of the experience of most individual industries; and that no shift in the relation between productivity and output growth could be identified.