Brigid Schulte
Director, Better Life Lab
Rage Against the Machine: The Future of Work is already here, and it isn’t robots we should be stressed out about
In this episode, we tell the story of Joe Liebman, a one-time newspaper distribution executive who lost his job as technology transformed the industry and now works in a warehouse in St. Louis. MIT economist David Autor shares his research finding that, as automation and technology continue to rapidly change work, it’s not the robots we should be worrying about.Â
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Episode Notes
Here are some notes and resources from this week’s show:
- – projections for 2020-2030
- David Autor, David Mindell & Elizabeth Reynolds:
- David Author’s TED Talk:
- David Autor, Claudia Goldin, Lawrence Katz:
- , Blue Shield of California Foundation and the Institute for the Future, 2020
- Beth Gutelius and Nik Theodore for UC Berkeley Labor Center and Working Partnerships USA:
- Molly Kinder, Amanda Lenhart, ¹ú²úÊÓƵ: Worker Voices: Technology and the Future for Workers
- : World Economic Forum. They project automation will eliminate about 85 million jobs in the next five years—potentially displacing up to half of the United States workforce with no clear path for them to connect to the new jobs likely to be created by these technological changes.
- Â – that's the group Joe Liebman joined to try to organize warehouse workers.
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