New Labor Market Strategies in the Self-Reinvention Economy
As automation and computerization expand, anxiety about jobs is at a fever pitch. Some say computers will displace a vast array of human work.Many others argue it polarizes the labor market: in a widely cited paper, David Autor and David Dorn argue that automation has forced middle-class workers easily replaced by machines into low-skilled jobs such as cooking, cleaning and healthcare; high-skilled workers capable of abstract thinking unmatched by computers are also surviving