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References: The Job Thief — A Dragon's Tale

  1. Technological unemployment - Wikipedia - Economic analysis of job displacement caused by technology, from the Industrial Revolution through AI automation, grounding the dragon Algorithm's accidental destruction in historical pattern.

  2. Automation - Wikipedia - Comprehensive overview of automated systems across industries, documenting the scope of tasks that machines have absorbed from human workers.

  3. Creative destruction - Wikipedia - Schumpeter's economic theory that innovation destroys old industries while creating new ones, the framework within which Algorithm the dragon operates.

  4. The Technology Trap: Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation - Carl Benedikt Frey - Princeton University Press - Oxford economist's history of how technology shapes labor markets, providing scholarly depth to the chapter's job displacement narrative.

  5. The Second Machine Age - Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee - W.W. Norton - MIT researchers' analysis of how digital technologies are transforming work, the optimistic counterpoint to the chapter's more anxious perspective.

  6. The Future of Employment - Oxford Martin School - The influential 2013 Frey and Osborne study estimating 47% of US jobs at risk of automation, the statistic that launched a thousand anxious op-eds.

  7. AI and the Future of Work - McKinsey Global Institute - Ongoing research tracking which occupations and activities are most susceptible to AI automation across the global economy.

  8. Will Robots Take My Job? - Interactive Tool - Searchable database showing automation probability for hundreds of occupations, the real-world version of the chapter's satirical job displacement calculator.

  9. Automation and the Workforce - U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics - Government data on technology's measured impact on employment, providing evidence-based context for the chapter's allegorical claims.

  10. Productivity and AI - Brookings Institution - Policy analysis of AI's economic transformation potential, balancing productivity gains against displacement risks the chapter dramatizes.