mechanization

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As in past decades when mechanization and offshoring erased countless jobs, those most threatened by the latest push in automation are people with less skills and in tasks that are routine and repetitive.

From Los Angeles Times

Tess Durbeyfield earns her living as a dairymaid before agricultural mechanization, but she channels early strains of what Hardy presciently calls “the ache of modernism.”

From New York Times

But the owls were a scapegoat: Well-paying jobs were also lost because of mechanization, the decline of unions and other trends undermining blue-collar jobs generally.

From New York Times

The mechanization led to the rise of “King Cotton” in the Antebellum South.

From Washington Times

But at the time, some saw mechanization and cruising as threatening dockworkers’ traditional role on the waterfront.

From Seattle Times