JOBS

Jobs

While many of us often  praise labor

fewer  consider the actual doing a favor.

Yet, as millions of American jobs  moved

to China, conditions of life there improved

though  the situation here has been far less cute

for those left impotently jobless and mute. 

But now another spin of the wheel

has left those  Chinese workers in turn in betrayal,

without an   effective strategy of defense

against tireless robots and artificial intelligence. 

Those in charge have  more than enough to satisfy their need,

and still easily manage themselves to clothe and feed

with plenty  left over  for pleasures and greed,.

And perhaps they even  maintain   a sense of perspective

but many others less fortunate will  be subject to  political  invective

making it hard to see how and where things may  eventually go 

in the  History of Work's  inevitable and dangerous   flow. 

HzL

6/12/16

the Luddite Rebellion - Luddites at 200

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The Luddites were textile workers ... The factory system ... in addition to the Luddite attacks there were many food riots throughout the North of England ...

Laid-Off Americans Defy Employers Who Moved Jobs Overseas

By JULIA PRESTON

Until recently, workers who lost jobs to global outsourcing have been largely silent. Now, some of the workers are starting to speak out, despite severance agreements prohibiting them from criticizing their former employers.

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China’s Factory to the World Is in a Race to Survive

Bloomberg · 7 days ago

It’s quiet these days on a Sunday afternoon in the streets of Dongguan, where almost every block outside the center is a factory or housing for …

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With the new robot-staffed factories, and startups that employ hundreds rather than thousands, many of the millions who came to make Guangdong an industrial superpower may have little choice but to return home.

For Jerry Yang, a production-line manager in his early 40s whose employer has slashed output, that feels like a betrayal. “I sold my youth to Dongguan,” he said. “And look how it treats me.”

In a series of provincial profiles this week, Bloomberg News explores the varying economic challenges confronting different parts of China.

Dongguan replaced 43,684 workers with robots in 2015, cutting costs at those factories by nearly 10 percent, according to the local government.

Lu Miao, a vice general manager of Lyric Robot in Guangdong’s Huizhou city, said the government pays as much as 50,000 yuan to Lyric’s customers for each robot they use to replace workers.

“The government at all levels in Guangdong has been encouraging companies to replace human workers as rapidly as possible,” said Lu. “I can see our business increasing more than 50 percent this year.”