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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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