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

Susskind, Daniel,

A world without work : technology, automation, and how we should respond / Daniel Susskind. - First edition. - x, 305 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

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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Automation--Social aspects.
Technology--Social aspects.
Social change.

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