What shift in employment trends had occurred by the mid 1950s

Employment was very high and people were getting hired into government jobs

IN 1930, when the world was "suffering ... from a bad attack of economic pessimism", John Maynard Keynes wrote a broadly optimistic essay, "Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren". It imagined a middle way between revolution and stagnation that would leave the said grandchildren a great deal richer than their grandparents. But the path was not without dangers.