On the effects and challenges of automation and digitization. Part I, an update
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https://doi.org/10.46661/rec.10698Keywords:
digital revolution, automation, industrial revolution, Industry 4.0, labour employment and work organizationAbstract
This contribution refers to the challenges that automation and digitization are posing, on employment and on other aspects. It relies on the results of an already published work that is intended to update, since new research and grey literature do not stop appearing. In our opinion, after analysing the information available, the two main changes that have taken place since the last third of the last century, which are profoundly affecting employment and working conditions, are the growing inequality in the distribution of income and wealth, as well as the impact of the change in the techno-economic paradigm linked to automation and digitization. The intention is to continue the debate on these changes.
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