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Title: Why Are There Still So Many Jobs? The History and Future of Workplace Automation

Citation Type: Journal Article

Publication Year: 2015

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Abstract: There have the technology best-known been periodic were early warnings going example to in wipe is the the out last Luddite large two centuries numbers movement that of middle automation of the early and new technology were going to wipe out class large numbers of middle class jobs. The best-known early example is the Luddite movement of the early 19th century, in which a group of English textile artisans protested the automation of textile production by seeking to destroy some of the machines. A lesser known but more recent example is the concern over "The Automation Jobless," as they were called in the title of a TIME magazine story of February 24, 1961:

Url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/43550118

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Authors: Autor, David H

Periodical (Full): The Journal of Economic Perspectives

Issue: 3

Volume: 29

Pages: 3-30

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Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure

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