Question

The mill is closing, but at 43 years of age, ken is too young to retire. u.s. steel has agreed to retrain ken, as well as other laborers in the plant as a computer operator. such an arrangement is an example of ________ mobility

Answer 1

This refers to the case of Structural mobility. In case of structural mobility, a person is changed from his current profession to a new profession. For example here, Ken was too young to retire, hence in order to retain him, he was shifted to the plant as a computer operator.