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A world without work : technology, automation, and how we should respond / Daniel Susskind.
Lippincott Library HD6331 .S86 2020
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Susskind, Daniel, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Automation--Social aspects.
- Automation.
- Technology--Social aspects.
- Technology.
- Social change.
- Physical Description:
- x, 305 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company, 2020.
- 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"-- Provided by publisher.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781250173515
- 1250173515
- OCLC:
- 1110677592
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