I remember in the 80s the Unions and Dems were up in arms about the roboticization and computerization of jobs. They actually tried to halt technical progress instead of evolve with it. I remember a big movement to ban robots from being used in factories out of fear of costing jobs.
The other big complaint at the time were businesses bringing in Japanese quality and efficiency standards like Kaizen- which required workers to be more efficient. Again, the Unions were up in arms about these new standards because one worker would end up being more productive than two or three. Heck, Hollyweird even put out movies about how bad it was.
When you are working inside a large organization it's easy to figure out where to go next but still we had about 750,000 people average over those years and increased our productivity ten-fold. If we'd not done that, we'd had to hire another 6 million or so workers.
No, we didn't export any jobs, but business growth did nothing whatsoever to create additional jobs ~ new jobs for sure, but not additional jobs.