{"id":699,"date":"2007-02-10T08:59:33","date_gmt":"2007-02-10T15:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/wp\/?p=699"},"modified":"2007-02-10T08:59:33","modified_gmt":"2007-02-10T15:59:33","slug":"no_jobs_on_the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/?p=699","title":{"rendered":"No jobs on the net"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I <a href=\"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/archives\/2007\/02\/it_youtube_and.php\">wrote<\/a> about the influence of computer automation in widening America&#8217;s growing income gap. In today&#8217;s New York Times, Floyd Norris <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/02\/10\/business\/10charts.html\">reports<\/a> on a new government study that documents what&#8217;s been going on in the U.S. labor market over the past six years, since January 2001. It provides an eye-opening account of what happens when business, and in particular media, moves from the physical to the virtual world. For those who might be hoping that the decline in jobs in traditional media will be offset by growth in employment in digital media, the news is not good:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>One chart shows the combined categories of publishing and broadcasting, both traditional and Internet-based. Over all, employment is down 11 percent. In those six years, employment in traditional paper-based publishing is down 13 percent. Broadcasting employment is off 3 percent. The traditional industries, between them, have shed 148,000 workers.<\/p>\n<p>Did the Internet make up the difference? Just the opposite. Internet publishing and broadcasting now employs 36,600 people, and that figure is down 29 percent from six years ago. A larger Internet-related area covers Internet service providers, search portals and data processing. It now has 385,000 workers, down 25 percent over the last six years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In the past information technology tended to reduce demand for low-skilled jobs but increase demand for higher-skilled specialists. Now, automation is moving up the skills ladder, as the Internet and sophisticated software combine to reduce the need for more categories of knowledge and creative workers. One has to wonder what new categories of employment will expand to absorb the losses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I wrote about the influence of computer automation in widening America&#8217;s growing income gap. In today&#8217;s New York Times, Floyd Norris reports on a new government study that documents what&#8217;s been going on in the U.S. labor market over the past six years, since January 2001. It provides an eye-opening account of what happens [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}