Coverage of the labor market in 2025 has taken on a decidedly white-collar tone, with artificial intelligence being cast as the principal long-term threat to the American workforce.

With the ability to write billions of lines of code daily and conduct other repetitive, cognitive tasks at scales and speeds humans could never challenge, such fears are not unfounded, and AI has already been cited in many of the mass reductions announced by Amazon and other corporations in recent weeks.

But for all the hand-wringing over the potentially ill-fated employees of Silicon Valley and Wall Street, a quieter crisis appears to be unfolding for the U.S.'s blue-collar employees, despite the pledges and efforts of the current administration to foster a renaissance in marquee industries such as constru

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