Supposedly, new technology lowers prices, which spurs new demand, which reemploy as the workers. I'm not saying I accept this argument, but I have not seen many economists eating crow.
Several centuries of capitalist history are on the side of the non-crow-eaters, no? I like Ursula Huws's argument that one reason is the continued commodification of household tasks, an instance of capitalism's seemingly endless propensity to create new and profitable "needs."
Doug
