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The paper connects automation in globalized supply chains with U.S. skill shortages and the labor-market effects of incarceration and recidivism. It argues that reshoring policy needs to be paired with vocational training, apprenticeships, reentry support, and local capability-building rather than relying on tariffs alone.
What the paper examines
- It treats definitions and institutional connections as part of the analysis: automation, skills, incarceration, and reentry are related policy questions.
- It tests whether a trade or industrial policy can improve work without ignoring geographic flexibility and automation.
- It frames second-chance hiring and apprenticeship pathways as human-capital and democratic-capacity interventions.
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Original paper record
- ResearchGate Harsh Wardhan, Siddhartha, A Systems-Centered Manifesto on Automation, Education, and the Carceral State (2025).Open source ↗
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Suggested citation
Siddhartha Harsh Wardhan. “A Systems-Centered Manifesto on Automation, Education, and the Carceral State.” Independent Observer, 19 September 2025.