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

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York, NY : Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company, c2020.Edition: 1st edDescription: x, 305 p. : illISBN:
  • 9781250173515 (hbk.)
  • 1250173515 (hbk.)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HD6331 .S87 2020
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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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

"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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