A world without work : technology, automation, and how we should respond / Daniel Susskind.
From an Oxford economist, a visionary account of how technology will transform the world of work, and what we should do about it. From mechanical looms to the combustion engine to the first computers, new technologies have always provoked panic about workers being replaced by machines. For centurie...
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New York :
Picador,
2021.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Part I : The Context
- 1. A History of Misplaced Anxiety
- 2. The Age of Labor
- 3. The Pragmatist Revolution
- 4. Underestimating Machines
- Part II : The Threat
- 5. Task Encroachment
- 6. Frictional Technological Unemployment
- 7. Structural Technological Unemployment
- 8. Technology and Inequality
- Part III: The Response
- 9. Education and Its Limits
- 10. The Big State
- 11. Big Tech
- 12. Meaning and Purpose
- Epilogue.