technological unemployment

American  

noun

1. unemployment caused by technological changes or new methods of production in an industry or business.

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technological unemployment Cultural  

1. Unemployment caused by the displacement of workers by machines.

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Etymology

Origin of technological unemployment

First recorded in 1925–30

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technological unemployment

Yet the notion that the economy faces mass technological unemployment doesn’t fit the evidence and risks prompting legislation aimed at the wrong problem.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026

As social insecurities rise due to widening gaps of inequality, technological unemployment, so too has anxiety, stress and rage.

From Salon ● Apr. 28, 2019

Today’s worry about mass technological unemployment is nothing new and probably won’t come to pass in its scariest imaginable form.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 7, 2017

The economist John Maynard Keynes famously cried wolf in 1931, by issuing a warning of widespread "technological unemployment".

From Reuters ● Jan. 20, 2016

Even Keynes in 1930 assured his readers that technological unemployment would be only a “temporary phase of maladjustment.”

From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2014