Susskind, Daniel.

A world without work : technology, automation, and how we should respond / Daniel Susskind. - 1st ed. - New York, NY : Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company, c2020. - x, 305 p. : ill.

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".

9781250173515 (hbk.) 1250173515 (hbk.)

2019029199


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

HD6331 / .S87 2020