The Technology Trap: Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation.

• Autores: Mikayla Novak
• Localización: Economic record, ISSN 0013-0249, Vol. 95, Nº. 311, 2019, págs. 520-522
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Frey also accounts for the existence of automation, and other forms of technology, which serve to increase employment and raise labour productivity. In keeping with his historically-situated narrative of technological change, Frey indicates that for much of the nineteenth century the adoption of technology appeared to largely come at the cost of employment. A recent draft report by the New Zealand Productivity Commission on the labour market effects of automation found scant evidence of imminent disruption to work (NZPC [3]). [Extracted from the article]