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Emotional Labor Long Undervalued Safe from Automation Erraticus Image by Zach Vessels
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Emotional Labor, Long Undervalued, Is Safe from Automation

May 20, 2019June 1, 2020 5 min read Henry Cowles Automation, Emotional Intelligence, Gender

Emotional labor is common to historically underpaid jobs held mostly by women. How will the rise of automation change the way it’s valued?

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Workers Can’t Stop Industry Change, But They Can Prepare For It Erraticus Image by Geraldine Lewa
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Workers Can’t Stop Industry Change, but They Can Prepare for It

January 20, 2018June 3, 2020 4 min read Heather Cazad Automation

New technology may erode some industries, but as a whole, it improves lives and productivity; Still, we all have to adapt if we want to withstand the initial shocks resulting from this creative destruction.

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“Pragmatism, on the other hand, asks its usual question. ‘Grant an idea or belief to be true,’ it says, ‘what concrete difference will its being true make in anyone’s actual life? How will the truth be realized? What experiences will be different from those which would obtain if the belief were false? What, in short, is the truth’s cash-value in experiential terms?'” — William James

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