A world without work : technology, automation, and how we should respond / Daniel Susskind

Author: Susskind, Daniel
Published: New York, NY : Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company, 2020.
Copyright Date: ©2020
Edition: First edition.
Physical Description: x, 305 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

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Contents

A History of Misplaced Anxiety -- The Age of Labour -- The Pragmatist Revolution -- Underestimating Machines -- Task Encroachment -- Frictional Technological Unemployment -- Structural Technological Unemployment -- Technology and Inequality -- The Response -- Education and Its Limits -- The Big State -- Big Tech -- Meaning and Purpose.

Summary

"A down-and-out so-and-so gets more than he bargained for when a wave of automation sweeps him and his kind out to an oil-black, petroleum-stink sea of indolent excess and the promise of A WORLD WITHOUT WORK"--

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ISBN

9781250173515 hardcover
1250173515 hardcover

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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