The Stop and Shop Strike is now in its sixth day. Some stores are closed, others remain open. Yesterday I went out to my local store, where I do most of my shopping, and walked the picket line with th
Let’s go ahead and say this guy is overstating the case. If it’s even close to what he projects, then how do we deal with this as a society? It is no longer in question whether all jobs wi
I was on a panel about automation and the future of work a couple of days ago, giving me a reason to read some of the latest articles on the subject. It’s a bright picture! Nearly half of Ohio w
Automation is a huge social problem for the United States, but it’s going to be even more so for Asia and Latin America. Prophets of free trade and capital mobility laud American corporate inves
If Democrats are going to start articulating pro-worker policies again as central platform planks, they need to get on board real fast to the problems that automation is already causing, problems that
Sure, I roll my eyes at companies saying they can’t actually make their products in the United States because they can’t get their supply chains here. Well, you can always make the parts y
This piece on automation in the Permian Basin oil fields is telling for both why companies want to automate all their jobs and why this is disastrous for working-class Americans. A few bits: In the la
I would say this might allay our rightful fears of automation creating massive unemployment and the social and racial unrest that follows, which we are having our first taste of in this country right