No, not really. I have a more global view in mind, eg Felixtowe vs London.
And, yes, you do mechanisation so that you can save on labour. Mass layoffs are just one expression of this (when you don't have enough natural attrition from people quitting).
You seem very keen on the American labour movements? There's another interesting thing to learn from history here: industry will move elsewhere, when labour movements get too annoying. Both to other parts of the country, and to other parts of the world.
I wouldn't just willy nilly turn my daughter's drawings into cartoons, if I had to bother a trained professional about it.
A few hours of a qualified worker's time takes a couple hundred bucks at minimum. And it takes at least a couple of hours to turn around the task.
Your argument seems a bit like web search being useless, because we have highly trained librarians.
Similar for electronic computers vs human computers.
> I think you are talking about the 1971 ILWU strike. https://www.ilwu.org/history/the-ilwu-story/
No, not really. I have a more global view in mind, eg Felixtowe vs London.
And, yes, you do mechanisation so that you can save on labour. Mass layoffs are just one expression of this (when you don't have enough natural attrition from people quitting).
You seem very keen on the American labour movements? There's another interesting thing to learn from history here: industry will move elsewhere, when labour movements get too annoying. Both to other parts of the country, and to other parts of the world.