On the Implications of Automation in the Manufacture Industry on United States Residing Blue-Collar Workers

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raghav Sriram
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
The United States ◽  
Industrial Robots ◽  
Blue Collar ◽  
United States Bureau ◽  
Blue Collar Workers ◽  
Robotic Devices ◽  
New Jobs

A study done by the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics found that of men ages 25 to 54, 13.2% were without work (Eberstadt). The British Broadcasting Company (BBC) believes this can be attributed to the increased use of robots—specifically in the manufacturing industry. Since 2000, industrial robots have replaced 1.7 million manufacturing jobs worldwide, and of these 1.7 million jobs, 260,000 were lost in the United States (Robots’ 'to replace up to 20 million factory jobs' by 2030) displaying the massive contribution automation has had on America’s unemployment crisis. According to Workism Is Making Americans Miserable, blue-collar jobs produce tangible products such as coal steel rods, and houses (Thompson) allowing manufacturers to easily replace them with more economically efficient robots. When 1,896 experts were asked the following question, “Will networked, automated, artificial intelligence (AI) applications and robotic devices have displaced more jobs than they have created by 2025?” Half responded that they envision a future in which robots and digital agents have displaced significant numbers of blue-collar workers with much-expressing concern that this will lead to vast increases in income inequality and a breakdown of social order. The other half believed technology will have not displaced more jobs than it creates by 2025 and predicted human ingenuity will create new jobs, industries, and ways of living to ensure jobs are created (Smith). This uncertainty for what lies ahead in the future makes it imperative to determine the extent automation in the manufacturing industry has impacted blue-collar workers in present society. While automation has led to the development and creation of many new jobs, most of these jobs are unattainable for the traditional blue-collar worker causing many to be replaced and without work. Manufacturing corporations must address this issue by improving the effectiveness of worker training programs and providing financial support for workers who have been displaced.

Apprenticeships and Career Pathways

2020 ◽  
pp. 62-82
Author(s):  
Czesław Noworol
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Professional Growth ◽  
The United States ◽  
Career Pathways ◽  
Blue Collar ◽  
Business Growth ◽  
Blue Collar Workers ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Main Ideas

Although there is vast diversity in apprenticeship concepts and practices in Europe, the United States, and other regions of the world, all apprenticeships are designed to support both the professional growth of workforce participants and business growth. Apprenticeships offer an efficient path to gaining valuable credentials and qualifications and thus are an important component of many career pathways. This chapter focuses on apprenticeships as a promising form of acquiring skills and credentials needed to fill the qualification gap of both white-collar and blue-collar workers. It provides a brief history of apprenticeship concepts, and it covers topics such as alignment of career pathways with apprenticeship concepts and trends. It illustrates the main ideas with examples of apprenticeship concepts and systems in several European countries and in the United States. It concludes with some considerations concerning future directions for research and practice.

The US Bureau of Efficiency: Not RIP in 1933?

Public Voices ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 44
Author(s):  
Mordecai Lee
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
The United States ◽  
United States Bureau ◽  
Efficient Management ◽  
The Us ◽  
Ongoing Support ◽  
Full Day

The United States Bureau of Efficiency (BOE), which had been established in 1916, was abolished in 1933 when President Hoover signed an omnibus appropriation bill on his last full day in office. Given Hoover's commitment to businesslike and efficient management and his ongoing support for the work of the Bureau throughout his presidency, what if he had acted differently and prevented its abolition? This fictional public administration history explores how Hoover could have kept BOE in existence and, if he had, how six of his successors might have treated the agency as part of their administrations.

Delegitimizing al-Qaida: Defeating an “Army Whose Men Love Death”

2014 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 126-164 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerry Mark Long ◽  
Alex S. Wilner
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Theoretical Investigation ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Arab Spring ◽  
The United States ◽  
Recruitment Tool ◽  
The Arab Spring ◽  
New Social Order

Deterring terrorism is no longer a provocative idea, but missing from the contemporary theoretical investigation is a discussion of how delegitimization might be used to manipulate and shape militant behavior. Delegitimization suggests that states and substate actors can use the religious or ideological rationale that informs terrorist behavior to influence it. In the case of al-Qaida, the organization has carefully elaborated a robust metanarrative that has proved to be remarkably successful as a recruitment tool, in identity formation for adherents, as public apologia and hermeneutic, and as a weapon of war—the so-called media jihad. In the wake of the upheaval of the Arab Spring, al-Qaida and its adherents have redeployed the narrative, promising a new social order to replace the region's anciens régimes. Delegitimization would have the United States and its friends and allies use al-Qaida's own narrative against it by targeting and degrading the ideological motivation that guides support for and participation in terrorism.

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