Description: A consensus-shattering account of automation technologies and their effect on workplaces and the labor market
In this consensus-shattering account of automation technologies, Aaron Benanav investigates the economic trends that will shape our working lives far into the future.
Silicon Valley titans, politicians, techno-futurists, and social critics have united in arguing that we are on the cusp of an era of rapid technological automation, heralding the end of work as we know it. But does the muchdiscussed “rise of the robots” really explain the long-term decline in the demand for labor?
Automation and the Future of Work uncovers the deep weaknesses of twenty-first-century capitalism and the reasons why the engine of economic growth keeps stalling. Equally important, Benanav goes on to salvage from automation discourse its utopian content: the positive vision of a world without work. What social movements, he asks, are required to propel us into post-scarcity if technological innovation alone can’t deliver it? In response to calls for a permanent universal basic income that would maintain a growing army of redundant workers, he offers a groundbreaking counterproposal.
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Narrative Type: book
Type: book
Intended Audience: General/trade
Book Title: Automation and the Future of Work
Number of Pages: 160 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Verso Books
Publication Year: 2020
Item Height: 0.7 in
Topic: Labor & Industrial Relations, Economic History, History & Theory, Public Policy / Science & Technology Policy
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Political Science, Business & Economics
Item Weight: 9.6 Oz
Author: Aaron Benanav
Item Length: 8.5 in
Item Width: 5.8 in
Format: Hardcover
