Automation Anxiety
Why and How to Save Work
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 13 October 2021
- ISBN 9780197566107
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages248 pages
- Size 164x245x21 mm
- Weight 490 g
- Language English 203
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Short description:
Confronting the hotly-debated prospect of mounting job losses due to automation, and the widely-divergent hopes and fears that prospect evokes, this book proposes a strategy for both mitigating the losses and spreading the gains from shrinking demand for human labor. What the book proposes for a foreseeable future of less work will help address growing economic inequality and persistent racial stratification as we face the prospect of net job losses.
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Are super-capable robots and algorithms destined to devour our jobs and idle much of the adult population? Predictions of a jobless future have recurred in waves since the advent of industrialization, only to crest and retreat as new jobs-usually better ones-have replaced those lost to machines. But there's good reason to believe that this time is different. Ongoing innovations in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and robotics are already destroying more decent middle-skill jobs than they are creating, and may be leading to a future of growing job scarcity. But there are many possible versions of that future, ranging from utterly dystopian to humane and broadly appealing. It all depends on how we respond.
This book confronts the hotly-debated prospect of mounting job losses due to automation, and the widely-divergent hopes and fears that prospect evokes, and proposes a strategy for both mitigating the losses and spreading the gains from shrinking demand for human labor. We should set our collective sights, it argues, on ensuring access to adequate incomes, more free time, and decent remunerative work even in a future with less of it. Getting there will require not a single "magic bullet" solution like universal basic income or a federal job guarantee but a multi-pronged program centered on conserving, creating, and spreading work. What the book proposes for a foreseeable future of less work will simultaneously help to address growing economic inequality and persistent racial stratification, and makes sense here and now but especially as we face the prospect of net job losses.
Automation Anxiety offers readers a sound and accessible analysis of how automation will likely shape work into the near future, along with a bevy of ideas to address it.
Table of Contents:
Preface
Chapter 1: Is This Time Different?
Chapter 2: Forecasting the Impact of Automation on Jobs
Chapter 3: What's Law Got To Do With It?
Chapter 4: Three Goals for a Future of Less Work
Chapter 5: Three Big Ideas (and Some Big Concerns)
Chapter 6: Creating and Conserving Work
Chapter 7: Spreading Work and Supporting Incomes
Chapter 8: Footing the Bill
Chapter 9: The Politics of Hope and Fear in a Future of Less Work
