‘Routine’ Jobs Are Disappearing
Many workers instead are taking lower-paying low-skill manual work or dropping out of the labor force, according to new research
One of the most worrying economic trends over the past few decades has been the decline of middle-class jobs in the U.S.
As “routine” jobs—often middle-class work based on a relatively narrow set of repeated tasks, such as welding-machine operators or bank tellers—disappear, many workers who would typically have held them have taken on lower-paying low-skill manual work or simply dropped out of the labor force, according to new...