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
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