Why robots, not trade, are behind so many factory job losses
Wiseman, Paul. "Why robots, not trade, are behind so many factory job losses." Associated Press story, 2 November 2016. Various publications and websites, most centrally the AP site, "The Big Story." [1]
Useful as a nearly random example a 21st-century phenomenon feared in the 20th. "Donald Trump blames Mexico and China for stealing millions of jobs from the United States" during Trump's campaign for the US presidency in 2016. Wiseman notes that Trump might "want to bash the robots instead." The column goes on to argue that "Despite the Republican presidential nominee's charge that 'we don't make anything anymore,'" in the USA, "manufacturing is still flourishing in America. Problem is, factories don't need as many people as they used to because machines now do so much of the work." Note fears of automation taking jobs in such works as Kurt Vonnegut's Player Piano.