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How Companies Use Three Magic Tricks to Turn Good Jobs Into Cheap Labor
Description
In 2008 companies learned how to "saw jobs in half" to dodge health mandates. Since then the same three sleights — job-splitting, the modern Turk (offshoring disguised as automation), and rebranding senior roles as "AI" roles — have been used to shift wages, benefits, and institutional power away from workers and into corporate accounting.
A clear taxonomy of three corporate tactics that transform real jobs into cheaper labor.
Specific incentives that make each tactic attractive to employers.
Ways to reframe the conversation so the public sees the economic choices behind the “AI did it” story.
Talking points for organizing, policy, or classroom use.
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Tags (for discoverability): labor economics, job automation, outsourcing, AI and jobs, corporate incentives, workforce policy, RomneyCare, offshoring, labor organizing, job transformation.