Skilling and deskilling: technological change in classical economic theory and its empirical evidence

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#Skilling/#Deskilling: "The purpose of this article is to review the views of the classical #economists on biased technical #change and its induction and to contrast these views with the available empirical #evidence." https://t.co/X4MiSqEEbU #technology

@plbds We show that training and upskilling can counter this power imbalance, if they are combined with wage policies. The core idea that tech. change can be used as a weapon in class struggle can also be found in the HET (e.g. Ricardo), see Brugger and Ge