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August 08, 2005

The End of Work
European politicians often like to blame outsourcing for the disappearance of jobs. But in reality the work isn't going to the Chinese -- it's going to the robots. In Western Europe, thousands of jobs have been eliminated as companies move their production facilities abroad. In many cases, the jobs are only temporarily being relocated to the Czech Republic or Poland. But these debates conveniently avoid the real problem: jobs aren't just being outsourced to lower-wage nations -- they're being replaced by automation. During the final two installments of a series of conversations with Jeremy Rifkin, the author discusses the disappearance of mass labor and offers prescriptions for countering the phenomenon. # posted by masquerader @ 16:32 ::

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