Rage Against the Machine: The Future of Work is already here, and it isn’t robots we should be stressed out about
Podcast
March 22, 2022
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.
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Episode Notes
Here are some notes and resources from this week’s show:
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Fastest growing occupations - projections for 2020-2030
- David Autor, David Mindell & Elizabeth Reynolds: MIT Future of Work Task Force
- David Author’s TED Talk: Will automation take away all our jobs?
- David Autor, Claudia Goldin, Lawrence Katz: Extending the Race Between Education and Technology
- The Future of work and its impact on Health, 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: The Future of Warehouse Work: Technological Change in the U.S. Logistics industry
- The Missouri Workers Center
- Molly Kinder, Amanda Lenhart, New America: Worker Voices: Technology and the Future for Workers
- The Future of Jobs Report 2020: 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.
- Missouri Workers Center - that's the group Joe Liebman joined to try to organize warehouse workers.
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