Laborokra

Laborokra is a neologism that appears in discussions of labor economics and automation to describe the complex interplay between human labor and automated systems within production processes. It is not widely standardized, and definitions vary among scholars and policymakers.

The term’s etymology is not fixed; it seems to be a blend of "labor" with a techno-social suffix intended to signal a systemic concept rather than a concrete measure.

In practice, Laborokra is used to frame debates about how automation shifts the contribution of human labor, alters job design, and influences wage dynamics. Some writers treat it as a metric of labor’s relative value in mixed production settings, while others use it as a theoretical lens for skill requirements, task allocation, and labor-market resilience in automated environments.

The concept overlaps with, and is sometimes contrasted with, traditional measures such as the labor share of income, capital-labor substitution, and indicators of human–robot collaboration. Critics warn that Laborokra can be vague or normatively loaded, especially when invoked to justify policy choices without clear definitions or empirical grounding.

See also labor share, automation, capital–labor substitution, human–robot collaboration.