It does lead to worker dislocations, but because new wealth is generated expansion should take place elsewhere in the economy, ultimately absorbing unemployed workers.
These plans foundered under a Republican Congress, but despite that roadblock, Clinton tripled worker-dislocation funds and passed a limited re-employment reform bill.
After a period of dislocation, workers successfully adapted: they took over the control systems, becoming engineers and managers.
Two Days, One Night is also implicitly a commentary about the fear and violence a company can inflict on workers, and how economic dislocation is absorbed into personal shame and emptiness, splintering psyches and shattering families.
And they could think about the kind of safety net needed to protect workers from the dislocations that the relentless onslaught of globalization is sure to bring.
But workers are doomed to dislocations.Surveillance and dislocations are not, though, what worries Messrs Hawking, Musk and Gates, or what inspires a phalanx of futuristic AI films that Hollywood has recently unleashed onto cinema screens.
Skinner and co-workers (1989) reported a 13% dislocation rate for THR in an RCT comparing IF, unipolar HA, and THR.
A group of ex-WorldCom employees pressured the company to pay some of the outstanding money -- ultimately securing a $36 million severance deal that allocated an average of $9,000 per worker -- but the hardships and dislocations continue.
The law also invests $2 billion in community colleges over the next four years to provide education and career training programs to workers eligible for trade adjustment aid after dislocation in their industries.
But just kicking the challenge down the road under the fuzzy prescription that all America needs is better education and training — a favorite of policy makers and their economic advisers — is no longer acceptable for workers who have suffered multiple rounds of dislocation over several decades.
Overall, the aggregate benefits of globalization to American consumers, economists say, outweigh the costs and painful dislocations for workers and families and even whole towns, no matter that the losers are more easily identifiable — and vocal — than the winners.
