171 | Christopher Mims on Our Interconnected Industrial Ecology
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
D Skilled Labor
Automating tasks and de-skilling labor has been integral to the growth of businesses like Amazon. The concept is to give the trickiest parts of the manufacturing process to robots and computers, making it easier to employ unskilled workers. This has been seen in the fast food industry, where automated grills replace skilled fry cooks. However, de-skilling tasks also leads to high turnover and less incentive to retain workers. From the Luddites smashing looms to Frederick Winslow Taylor's theories, the culture of scientific management has played a role in this evolution.
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