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Mathew Augustine

Mathew Augustine, GPHR, REBC, CEO of Workforce Junction LLC

“Technology Doesn’t Always Beat Labor.”

The above title of a Harvard Business review article* caught my eye. The author was commenting on a number of recent books that addressed the issue of technologies putting people out of work. The article began with an 1867 quote from Karl Marx that went like this: “History discloses no tragedy more horrible than the gradual extinction of the English handloom weavers by the rapid and persistent progress of machinery.”