Photo of Dominique Morisseau.
her strength of characters and
stories that contain important
messages. As Wilson turned
Pittsburgh into something of
an everyday town in America,
Morisseau has done the same
for Detroit. Her trilogy not only
points out changes in the Motor
City, but changes in the country
has a whole. Automation is one
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such example. While Detroit has
been on the frontline of the au-
tomation revolution, it is spread-
ing throughout other industries
and across the country.
“I think that’s one of the biggest
challenges facing blue-collar
workers in America right now,”
continued Wooten. “Technol-
ogy has replaced so many of
those jobs that the future is more
about retraining the workers and
reacclimating them to the jobs of
tomorrow. That’s what most in-
trigued me about Skeleton Crew.
I think, in some ways, the biggest
issue facing the modern Ameri-
can worker is that technology
is only going to continue to get
better and better; and, as it gets
better and better, the need for
human workers to do what tech-
nology and robots can do for a
lot cheaper is going to continue
to be a challenge and an issue.”
Another reason Skeleton Crew
appealed to Wooten was the op-
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