This congressional report contains testimony given at the first of a series of comprehensive hearings on the impact of automation on employment and the workplace. Included among those agencies and organizations represented at the hearing were the following: the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers; the American Federation of Labor/Congress of Industrial Organizations; the Working Women Education Fund; Unimation, Inc.; the Chase Manhattan Bank; the National Productivity Group; Advanced Office Concepts; the Library of Congress; the GCA Corporation; and the United States General Accounting Office. (MN)