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Why Socialism Can Abolish Classes, Including Workers, While Capitalism...
While the many robots in auto factories typically perform only one function, in the new Tesla factory in Fremont, Calif., a robot might do up to four: welding, riveting, bonding and installing a...
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Mondragon Coops Make Waves All the Way to California
When the Workers Run the Show By April Dembosky SolidarityEconomy.net via Financial Times Business cycle: co-op member Brian Drayton mends a bike at Spokes, one of the co-operatives setting up in the...
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Not to Worry? Not for the Unskilled
Smarter, Safer Robot Could Give U.S. Manufacturers Major Advantage Company hopes its human-like robot will make it more competitive to do low-cost goods in the U.S. BY JEFFREY BAUSCH Electronic...
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Strategic Solutions: If You Want Shorter Hours, Let Me Tell You What to Do…
Don't Slave Your Life Away: Why America Should Embrace a 4-Day Work Week By Bill Ivey SolidarityEconomy.net via Alternet.org / Nov 28, 20102 The following is an excerpt from Handmaking America: A...
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GOP Carbon Burners: Destroying Jobs to ‘Create’ Jobs?
California Wind Giants Urge Extension of Tax Credit BY REBECCA KHEEL SolidarityEconomy.net via Bakersfield Californian staff writer An extension to a tax credit for the wind industry has been lumped...
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Krugman, Marx and the ‘Rise of the Robots’
'Marxist Echoes' Indeed...It's Called the Crisis from the Growing Organic Composition of Capital over Labor--and the Tendency of the Rate of Profit to Fall -Ed By Paul Krugman SolidarityEconomy.net...
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New Green Jobs and the ‘Rooftop Revolution’:
Why It's Time to Join the Solar Boom By Danny Kennedy SolidarityEconomy.net via Berrett-Koeler Publishers Dec 29, 2012 - The following is an excerpt from 'Rooftop Revolution: How Solar Power Can Save...
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The Golden Age: Keynes, Malthus, Marx and the Post-Scarcity Vision
The 15-hour working week predicted by Keynes may soon be within our grasp – but are we ready for freedom from toil? By John Quiggin SolidarityEconomy.net via Aeon Magazine Sept 27, 2012 - I first...
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Technology and Permanent Job Destruction: The Dark Understructure of the...
The AP's High-Impact Three-Part Series on Joblessness and Stalled Recovery Middle-Class Jobs Cut in Recession Feared Gone for Good, Lost to Technology By Associated Press NEW YORK, Jan 25 2013 — Five...
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Whoops! Own Gravediggers Dept: The Structural Crisis Grows Deeper When...
Krugman on the Impact of Machines on Jobs The rise of machines is in part to blame for growing income inequality, according to Paul Krugman. The Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times...
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Why Jobs Are Not Created by the Rich…
…An important economics lesson in less than 6 minutes by a rich capitalist caught telling the truth. email2friend
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Dystopia or Utopia? How a Mass Influx of Robots Will Affect Human Employment
It’s Time to Talk about the Burgeoning Robot Middle Class By Illah Nourbakhsh SolidarityEconomy.net via MIT Tech Review In the book Race Against the Machine, Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee of...
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‘Smart Grid’ Memo to the GOP ‘Job-Creators’ Still Dragging Their Feet:
State wind-power efforts need a boost in construction of electric power lines By Jim Malewitz SolidarityEconomy.net via WashPost July 30, 2013 - Kansas is undoubtedly a windy state, but it is not yet...
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Libertarian Self-Delusion: Think Tank Report Says Poor Americans Have It Too...
By Joshua Holland Billmoyers.com August 21, 2013 - Conservative think tanks have spawned a cottage industry churning out dubious studies purporting to show that poor families are living high on the...
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The Impact of Robots: Abundance and the Need for Radical Structural Reform
Marx anticipated the problem as capitalism’s systemic crisis, the growth in the ‘organic composition of capital’ (machines) in an inverse relation to ‘living labor’ (jobs). The way out, in the shorter...
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‘Smart’ Wind Farms Make More Waves than Clean Energy
Big Data From Talking Turbines Signal Productivity Boom By Shobhana Chandra, Rich Miller and Peter Burrows SolidarityEconomy.net via Bloomberg.com Sep 11, 2013 - At the Top Crop farm in Dwight,...
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AFL-CIO Looking at Mondragon Coops
A Formula for Reawakening Labor: Capitalism, Communities and Cooperatives By Frank Islam and Ed Crego SolidarityEconomy.net via HuffPost Sept 14, 2013 - Based upon the rhetoric at the quadrennial...
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High Touch Leapfrogging High Tech?
Report Suggests Nearly Half of U.S. Jobs Are Vulnerable to Computerization By Aviva Hope Rutkin SolidarityEconomy.net via MIT Tech Review Sept 12, 2013 - Oxford researchers say that 45 percent of...
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What Then Can I Do? 10 Ways to Democratize the Economy
By Gar Alperovitz and Keane Bhatt Truthout | Op-Ed Sept 24, 2013 - The richest 400 Americans now own more wealth than the bottom 180 million taken together. The political system is in deadlock. Social...
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Solar Energy Non-Profit Delivers Alternative Energy To Low-Income Neighborhoods
Homeoner Miguel Rodriguez, right, carrying a panel with a member of Green City Force Oct 7, 2013 - Residential solar power has become increasingly affordable over the past few years as an...
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