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Chapter Eleven. The Work. Who Pays for the Productivity Every wave of automation has promised broad benefit and delivered uneven distribution. This one is moving faster, reaching further, and the institutions designed to manage the transition are still thinking about the last one. In 1811, a group of textile workers in Nottingham began breaking machines. They were skilled craftsmen... knitters, croppers, weavers... whose livelihoods depended on the quality and complexity of their work. The m