Robots Will Steal Your Job · #1 ·

Unemployment Today

Federico takes us through unemployment trends leading up to 2012.

0:00 / 0:0012.6 MB
Hosts: Ian R Buck

Chapter Index

00:00 | Intro
00:25 | Chapter Begins
11:00 | Outro

Figures

Figure 1.1: Average Household Income
Figure 1.1: Average Household Income
Figure 1.2: Change in share of income 1979-2007, calculated after taxes.
Figure 1.2: Change in share of income 1979-2007, calculated after taxes.
Figure 1.3: Building a Better America – One Wealth Quintile at a Time
Figure 1.3: Building a Better America – One Wealth Quintile at a Time, Michael I. Norton, Dan Ariely. Journal Perspectives on Psychological Science.

References

  1. US Posts Stronger Solid Growth in July, Mokoto Rich, 2011. The New York Times.
    http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/06/business/economy/us-posts-solid-job-gains-amid-fears.html?pagewanted=all
  2. Private Sector Up, Government Down, David Leonhardt, 2011. The New York Times.
    http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/05/private-sector-up-government-down/
  3. Jobs Deficit, Investment Deficit, Fiscal Deficit, Laura D’Andrea Tyson, 2011. The New York Times.
    http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/29/jobs-deficit-investment-deficit-fiscal-deficit/
  4. The Employment Situation, 2012. Bureau Of Labor Statistics
    http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf
  5. Civilian Labor Force Participation Rate. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
    http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS11300000
  6. Race Against The Machine: How the Digital Revolution is Accelerating Innovation, Driving Productivity, and Irreversibly Transforming Employment and the Economy, Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee, 2011. Digital Frontier Press.
    http://raceagainstthemachine.com
  7. The End of Work Website, Jeremy Rifkin.
    http://www.foet.org/books/end-work.html
  8. The End of Work, Wikipedia.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_End_of_Work
  9. A rough 10 years for the middle class, Annalyn Censky, 2011. CNNMoney.
    http://money.cnn.com/2011/09/21/news/economy/middle_class_income/index.htm
  10. 22 Statistics That Prove That The Middle Class Is Being Systematically Wiped Out Of Existence In America, Michael Snyder, 2010. Business Insider.
    http://www.businessinsider.com/22-statistics-that-prove-the-middle-class-is-being-systematically-wiped-out-of-existence-in-america-2010-7
  11. US Congressional Budget Office, 2011. Graphics adapted from Mother Jones. http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/02/income-inequality-in-america-chart-graph
  12. Building a Better America – One Wealth Quintile at a Time, Michael I. Norton, Dan Ariely. Journal Perspectives on Psychological Science.
    http://pps.sagepub.com/content/6/1/9
  13. I highly recommend the four-part video series Everything is a Remix by Kirby Ferguson, one of the best piece of work I have ever seen on this subject.
    http://www.everythingisaremix.info

Attributions

Copyright

The Robots Will Steal Your Job, But That's OK Audiobook is released under a Creative Commons — Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license. Feel free to use any or all of it as long as you link back to http://thenexus.tv/rsj1, you do not use it for commercial purposes, and you release any derivative works under the same license.