Readings

The readings for the sixthteen day of class examine issues related to employment, including H-1B visas and automation.

H-1B Visas

• America has an innovation problem. The H-1B visa backlog is making it worse.

• Is the H-1B Program a Cynical Attempt to Undercut American Workers? (Archive)

• Commentary: The H-1B Visa Problem as IEEE-USA Sees It

Optional

• H-1B Specialty Occupations, DOD Cooperative Research and Development Project Workers, and Fashion Models

• Lets talk about the H1-B Visa

Automation

• How Artificial Intelligence and Robots Will Radically Transform the Economy

• The Long-Term Jobs Killer Is Not China. It’s Automation. (Archive)

• The New Casualties of Automation (Archive)

• The optimist’s guide to the robot apocalypse

Optional

• How Safe Is Your Job? A New Freakonomics Radio Podcast

• Planet Money

  • Episode 621: When Luddites Attack

  • Episode 622: Humans vs. Robots

  • Episode 623: The Machine Comes To Town

  • Episode 624: I, Waiter

Quiz

Once you have performed the readings, you are to take the quiz below by 6:00 AM of the morning the reading is assigned (ie. it is due before class).