Automation and the Future of Work by Benanav, Aaron

Automation and the Future of Work

A consensus-shattering account of automation technologies and their effect on workplaces and the labor market In this...
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Automation and the Future of Work by Benanav, Aaron

Automation and the Future of Work

BD$34.99

Automation and the Future of Work

BD$34.99
Author: Aaron Benanav
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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.

Author: Aaron Benanav
Publisher: Verso
Published: 11/03/2020
Pages: 160
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.70w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9781839761294

About the Author
Aaron Benanav is a Researcher at Humboldt University of Berlin. He previously taught at the University of Chicago and has written for the Guardian and New Left Review.

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