Employment, Disabled People and Robots: What Is the Narrative in the Academic Literature and Canadian Newspapers?
The impact of robots on employment is discussed extensively, for example, within the academic literature and the public domain. Disabled people are known to have problems obtaining employment. The purpose of this study was to analyze how robots were engaged with in relation to the employment situati...
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| description | The impact of robots on employment is discussed extensively, for example, within the academic literature and the public domain. Disabled people are known to have problems obtaining employment. The purpose of this study was to analyze how robots were engaged with in relation to the employment situation of disabled people within the academic literature present in the academic databases EBSCO All—an umbrella database that consists of over 70 other databases, Scopus, Science Direct and Web of Science and within n = 300 Canadian newspapers present in the Canadian Newsstand Complete ProQuest database. The study focuses in particular on whether the literature covered engaged with the themes of robots impacting (a) disabled people obtaining employment; (b) disabled people losing employment; (c) robots helping so called abled bodied people in their job to help disabled people; or (d) robots as coworkers of disabled people. The study found that robots were rarely mentioned in relation to the employment situation of disabled people. If they were mentioned the focus was on robots enhancing the employability of disabled people or helping so called abled-bodied people working with disabled clients. Not one article could be found that thematized the potential negative impact of robots on the employability situation of disabled people or the relationship of disabled people and robots as co-workers. The finding of the study is problematic given the already negative employability situation disabled people face. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c0f0207759084f53914e033de417f5e92022-12-22T03:30:51ZengMDPI AGSocieties2075-46982016-04-01621510.3390/soc6020015soc6020015Employment, Disabled People and Robots: What Is the Narrative in the Academic Literature and Canadian Newspapers?Gregor Wolbring0Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB T2N4N1, CanadaThe impact of robots on employment is discussed extensively, for example, within the academic literature and the public domain. Disabled people are known to have problems obtaining employment. The purpose of this study was to analyze how robots were engaged with in relation to the employment situation of disabled people within the academic literature present in the academic databases EBSCO All—an umbrella database that consists of over 70 other databases, Scopus, Science Direct and Web of Science and within n = 300 Canadian newspapers present in the Canadian Newsstand Complete ProQuest database. The study focuses in particular on whether the literature covered engaged with the themes of robots impacting (a) disabled people obtaining employment; (b) disabled people losing employment; (c) robots helping so called abled bodied people in their job to help disabled people; or (d) robots as coworkers of disabled people. The study found that robots were rarely mentioned in relation to the employment situation of disabled people. If they were mentioned the focus was on robots enhancing the employability of disabled people or helping so called abled-bodied people working with disabled clients. Not one article could be found that thematized the potential negative impact of robots on the employability situation of disabled people or the relationship of disabled people and robots as co-workers. The finding of the study is problematic given the already negative employability situation disabled people face.http://www.mdpi.com/2075-4698/6/2/15robotindustrial robotservice robotsocial robotemploymentjobworkoccupationnewspapersacademic literature |
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| title | Employment, Disabled People and Robots: What Is the Narrative in the Academic Literature and Canadian Newspapers? |
| title_full | Employment, Disabled People and Robots: What Is the Narrative in the Academic Literature and Canadian Newspapers? |
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| title_short | Employment, Disabled People and Robots: What Is the Narrative in the Academic Literature and Canadian Newspapers? |
| title_sort | employment disabled people and robots what is the narrative in the academic literature and canadian newspapers |
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