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Educating for a Workless Society: Technological Advance, Mass Unemployment and Meaningful Jobs

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I draw on outstanding research to substantiate that the circumvention of deep recessions enhances end results in the labour market greatly over lengthy periods of time, but the failure in identifying substitute employment for displaced personnel may take place notwithstanding the indisputable flexibility of current the labour market. Technological change has influenced organized labour markets considerably, stimulating substantial alterations in the sectoral model of employment over time. The position that will be elaborated in this chapter is that jobs throughout the economy are not proportionately liable to being dislocated by technology and automation . Routine or expected tasks are more prone to dislodgment than non-routine ones. A synthesis of the extant literature suggests that automation is likely to remove jobs. In contrast, the invention of novel intricate tasks generates new jobs. My analyses indicate that with ascending levels of education , individuals have succeeded in becoming proficient at such sophisticated tasks (the ones that are not invalidated by automation are frequently integrated by it). The intensifying complexity of machines may annihilate the invention of such tasks, and consequently, machines may be an alternative for all human tasks.

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    George Lăzăroiu

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  2. Zagreb University of Applied Sciences , Zagreb, Croatia

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  3. University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI, USA

    Alexander J. Means

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Lăzăroiu, G. (2019). Educating for a Workless Society: Technological Advance, Mass Unemployment and Meaningful Jobs. In: Peters, M., Jandrić, P., Means, A. (eds) Education and Technological Unemployment. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-6225-5_10

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