What’s killing jobs?

Possibly up to three-quarters of a million in the U.K. and around four million more American jobs could be lost, not to foreign competition and ‘outsourcing’ but just to technological change.

The jobs of taxi and truck drivers could be lost to automation, with nothing plausible coming down the road to replace them, columnist Gwynne Dyer speculates.The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

November 9, 2016

LONDON, U.K.—“The notion that Uber in London is a mosaic of 30,000 small businesses linked by a common ‘platform’ is, to our minds, faintly ridiculous,” said one of the judges on the employment tribunal. So the tribunal ruled that Uber’s 30,000 drivers in London were actually employees, ...

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