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Technology, Work and Migration
With a little bit of Neoliberalism in the Neighborhood
Tony ZaragozaThe Evergreen State College
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Technology, Work and Migration
• How Widespread is the use of Robotics & Automation in the Global Economy?
• What are some of the impacts of the growing use of automation in conjunction with other economic forces?
• Neoliberalism in the Neighborhood
• Migration, Megacities, Slums, Skyscrapers, and Mansions
• New class and growing movement of the global displaced
QRIORobots could be your
friend
KaikanYour entertainer
Asimo
Your waiter
AIBOYour pet
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Your nurse…
“Robot displaces candy stripers”
CNetNew.com, Feb. 10, 2005
Your doctor…
Your personal servant…
“Domestic robot to debut in Japan”
A robot that recognises up to 10 faces and understands 10,000 words is to be offered to Japanese consumers looking for a high-tech helper in the house.
One of the first automated public machines
One we all know and love
Cash with convenience, any time
At the airport
At the library
At the store
“Robot to replace pharmacy staff”
BBC, August 30, 2005
“Palletizers: Man vs. machine”Modern Materials Handling; Boston; Jun 2001
Higher throughputs, fewer injuries, more consistent stacking, improved accuracy. These are just a few of the benefits automated palletizing systems have over manual stacking of pallets. When labor savings and injury reductions are factored in, it is easy to see economic justification for automation for those companies that build a large number of pallets daily. Most can see paybacks on systems in a short amount of time. Another advantage is reliability.
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On the Farm
Transport of Commodities
On the Docks
In the HomeThe Robo Vacuum
On the Battlefield
Military ReconnaissanceAnd this is just the beginning here
In the Sky Predator drone
On the Border: The new Border Patrol
“Gloomy Outlook For Factory Jobs Is Likely to Darken” Wall Street Journal; New York, N.Y.; Feb 19, 2003
“European business rushes to automate” Wall Street Journal; New York; Jul 23, 1997
“Robots take service jobs”The Gold Coast Bulletin. Southport, Qld.: Nov 23, 2006. p. 23
“Robots get jobs as announcers”The Salina Journal. Salina, Kan.: Jun 20, 2006. p. B1
“Scientists develop robots to do world's most risky jobs”Morag Lindsay. The Press and Journal. Aberdeen (UK): Sep 12, 2006. p. 10
The Technology Road Map for Tree Fruit ProductionWA StateProgram Initiatives1. Automate Orchard and Fruit Handling Operations2. Optimize Fruit Quality, Nutritional Value, and Safety3. Deliver Digital Rural Information Technologies
“Beyond the BOOM TIMES Virginia town devastated as foreign competition, automation eat away at workers' livelihoods”The Atlanta Journal the Atlanta Constitution; Atlanta, Ga.; Apr 2, 2000
“Robotics increase performance, reduce labor”Material Handling Management; Cleveland; Oct 2002
“Israel Moves to Automate Its Agriculture --- Use of Robots Grows As Palestinian Problem”
Wall Street Journal. (Eastern edition). New York, N.Y.: Jun 9, 1993. pg. PAGEA.8
“Field hands vs. machines: Technology's potential part of immigration debate”
The Atlanta Journal - Constitution. Atlanta, Ga.: Jun 1, 2006. pg. B.1Washington --- Something's changed this season at Bland Farms in the heart of Georgia's Vidalia onion country.Although digging up onions is still a laborious process done by hand by temporary workers from Mexico, the next step in the harvest has fast-forwarded into the computer age. This year, the crop is being brought from the fields into a warehouse where a machine electronically sizes up each gourmet onion according to its weight and shape and fills 45-pound boxes with just the right mix for grocery stores around the country."It's pretty high tech," said Delbert Bland, owner of the Glennville operation, who first saw the device in fruit farms on the West Coast. The nearly $1.5 million machine will gradually pay for itself by reducing his work force, which he cut by 50, he said.
Proquest Search for Automation and Robots in title last 30 days
Robotics IndustryAssociation video
From
www.faireconomy.org
“Growing Divide”
From www.faireconomy.org “Growing Divide”
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The annual work hours of low-income single mothers rose from about 900 per year in 1994 to over 1,200 six years later, an increase of 320 hours per year. This amounts to two more months of full-time work, a historically large shift over a relatively short time period. In 2003, 29.4% of women earned poverty-level wages or less, significantly more than the share of men (19.6%). Women are also much less likely to earn very high wages. In 2003 only 9.4% of women, but 17.5% of men, earned at least three times the poverty-level wage.
From State of Working America 2004/2005--Women
Welfare Rights Organizing Coalition
Kennsington Welfare Rights Organization
Purple Rose Campaign
All Women Count
Women’s Economic Agenda Project
International Gender and Trade Network
Institute for Women’s Policy Research
Resources on Women, the economy, and Movement Building
From the Report “Without Housing”
Women, Technology, and Neoliberalism
• The Global Reorganization of Women’s Work
• Break up of family structure as men migrate alone • Women go migrate and emigrate for work• Growth of Informal Sector as part of the formal economy• Prostitution• Sweatshop Labor• Mail-order Brides• Death on the Border–Ciudad Juarez
“The New Agrarian Question”
The ratio of the productivity of the most advanced capitalist segment of the world’s agriculture to the poorest, which was around 10 to 1 before 1940, is now approaching 2000 to 1!
What would happen to those billions of people living in the countryside?
Now those who have recently arrived and their children are situated on the margins of the main productive systems, creating favorable conditions for the substitution of community solidarities for class consciousness.
Meanwhile, women are even more victimized by economic precariousness than are men, resulting in deterioration of their material and social conditions.
Samir Amin, “World Poverty, Pauperization, Capital Accumulation”
Los Angeles, California
Cairo, Egypt
Jakarta, Indonesia
Shanghi, China
Tehran, Iran
London, England
Tokyo, Japan
New York, New York
Beijing, China
Sao Paolo, Brazil
Mexico City
Mexico City
Mexico City
Bombay, India
Dhaka, Bangladesh
Kibera district of Nairobi, Kenya
Kibera district of Nairobi, Kenya
Sao Paolo, Brazil
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Metaphoric ArchitectureHorizontal movement and Vertical Movement
Rio de Janeiro Manila, Philippines
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LYTLE HOUSE MERCER ISLAND, WASH. Price: $40 million
Built in 2001, this four-bedroom chateau-style house sits on the shore of Lake Washington between Seattle and Bellevue. It is the home of Chuck and Karen Lytle, retirement-community developers. Neighbors include the Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and the Seattle Seahawks coach Mike Holmgren. A 70-foot indoor saltwater pool is ringed by Egyptian-themed columns.
www.harveyfinkle.com
www.economichumanrights.org
www.kwru.org
www.tribunodelpueblo.org
Perhaps robots can be our friends.
They could save us all a lot of work, produce what we all need, and offer us all a lot of free time.
Maybe it just depends on who owns and controls them . . .
The few or the many?
