Noam Scheiber
Labor Reporter at The New York Times
Labor reporter for NY Times. Ex-TNR. Author of The Escape Artists, book on Obama admin & economy. [email protected]
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3 weeks ago |
nytimes.com | Noam Scheiber
The Supreme Court on Thursday made it easier for members of so-called majority groups to bring discrimination cases, but experts say the impact is likely to be limited. A Supreme Court ruling on Thursday handed a victory to white Americans and straight people who believe they have been discriminated against in the workplace. But just how widespread are those complaints?
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4 weeks ago |
afr.com | Noam Scheiber
Noam ScheiberMay 31, 2025 – 12.00pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Since at least the industrial revolution, workers have worried that machines would replace them. But when technology transformed auto-making, meatpacking and even secretarial work, the response typically wasn’t to slash jobs and reduce the number of workers.
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1 month ago |
nytimes.com | Noam Scheiber
La queja entre algunos ingenieros de software del gigante del comercio electrónico no es que la inteligencia artificial les ha quitado sus empleos, sino que los ha vuelto más tediosos y acelerados. Desde la revolución industrial, si no es que antes, a los trabajadores les ha preocupado ser sustituidos por máquinas.
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1 month ago |
ourcommunitynow.com | Noam Scheiber
Share Since at least the industrial revolution, workers have worried that machines would replace them.But when technology transformed auto-making, meatpacking and even secretarial work, the response typically wasn’t to slash jobs and reduce the number of workers. It was to “degrade” the jobs, breaking them into simpler tasks to be performed over and over at a rapid clip. Small shops of skilled mechanics gave way to hundreds of workers spread across an assembly line.
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1 month ago |
flipboard.com | Noam Scheiber
Young adults in Europe are putting away smartphonesA British survey found that almost half of young adults would prefer to live in a time without the Internet. One startup from the Netherlands is …
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Important piece from @natashanyt on the race to get Gen AI into the hands of college students https://t.co/Qmxtf0gWwS
The Supreme Court ruled yesterday that it should be just as easy for white men to sue for discrimination as any member of a minority group. Does this open the floodgates to reverse-discrimination lawsuits? And how common is that anyway? Some thoughts https://t.co/WCpaUjwEbB
NEWS: Video game workers at Microsoft have just reached a tentative contract with the company, the first in the industry in the U.S. after lots of union organizing over the past few years. https://t.co/PJYNWgHeL8