A clash between organized labor and the rise of new technologies is front and center among a handful of major strikes.
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Through the adoption of new technologies, the market has a knack for delivering the things we want and need. These gains do have a flipside, however.Thus, amid a flowering of new tech, we suddenly now find ourselves in an era of national labor strife.as online streaming has created a new revenue model and the rise of AI has presented studios with cheaper drafting options.in numbers not seen in decades.
Back out in California, another labor storm is brewing as autonomous freight trucking becomes a possibility. In response, the California legislature voted recentlyGovernor Gavin Newsom, whose office has been critical of the ban, is now facing the wrath of the truckers’ union as the bill heads to his desk. “We will reach into his closet and take every f***ing skeleton out that’s in there,”In New York, sanitation is a friction point.
Hollywood writers have been among the most vocal in their demands for protection from the encroachment of technology.Such an impulse is nothing new. Take that faction of weavers we call the Luddites, who smashed power looms in England two centuries ago. Members of the United Auto Workers hold a practice picket line as they gear up to fight increased automation on the factory floor.Professor Allitt empathizes with today’s workers, but with his historian’s eye sees a picture of broadly-shared progress, even on the labor front. “Every time one set of jobs has disappeared, new ones have appeared and in every generation more of the jobs have been relatively interesting, well paying, and fulfilling.
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