Bob Kuttner, in The Atlantic ~onthly(~uly1983), P.O. Box 2547, Boulder, Colo. 80322.
New technology often takes jobs away with one hand and gives them back with the other. But Kuttner, former editor of Working Papers mag-azine, argues that the overwhelming majority of jobs created during the 1980s will be routine and poorly paid. The result, he fears, will be a shrinking middle class and an increasingly stratified U.S. society.
The decline of America's "smokestack" industries-machine...