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Technology, Work and Migration With a little bit of Neoliberalism in the Neighborhood. Tony Zaragoza The Evergreen State College. Technology, Work and Migration. How Widespread is the use of Robotics & Automation in the Global Economy?
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Technology, Work and MigrationWith a little bit of Neoliberalism in the Neighborhood Tony Zaragoza The Evergreen State College
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
QRIO Robots could be your friend
Kaikan Your entertainer
Asimo Your waiter
AIBO Your pet
Your nurse… “Robot displaces candy stripers” CNetNew.com, Feb. 10, 2005
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
“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.
On the Docks Transport of Commodities
In the Home The Robo Vacuum
On the Battlefield Military Reconnaissance And 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 Production WA State Program Initiatives 1. Automate Orchard and Fruit Handling Operations 2. Optimize Fruit Quality, Nutritional Value, and Safety 3. 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.1 Washington --- 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
From www.faireconomy.org “Growing Divide”
From www.faireconomy.org “Growing Divide”
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
Resources on Women, the economy, and Movement Building 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
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”
