In the first article of the ILR Review’s new series on “Novel Technologies at Work”, Diane Bailey provides a critical view on conventional wisdom that technological change is an unstoppable force—a wave of “creative destruction.” Mark Zuckerberg’s motto of “move fast and break things” crystalizes this idea. So, when emerging technologies have negative consequences, many feel powerless to alter these tsunamis of invention. According to Bailey, however, this does not need to be the case. But first we need to understand the problem at hand.

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