mechanization

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Public- and private-sector researchers have experimented with mechanization for decades, but progress has been slow.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 29, 2025

The economy has shifted away from jobs requiring direct physical labor toward more sedentary jobs owing to computerization and mechanization, making age-based disability standards that assume jobs require physical exertion outdated and ripe for reform.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 22, 2025

John Deskins, director of the West Virginia University Bureau of Business and Economic Research, said 75% of West Virginia’s coal jobs were disappearing before coal production dropped because of mechanization.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 11, 2023

Unlike cotton, which was almost entirely mechanized in the Southeast by the 1970s, peaches were too delicate and ripeness too difficult to judge for mechanization to be a viable option.

From Salon • Jun. 8, 2023

But mechanization wasn’t Duke’s only weapon in the struggle for market dominance.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson