Full Description
This short, accessible book seeks to explore the future of work through the views and opinions of a range of expertise, encompassing economic, historical, technological, ethical and anthropological aspects of the debate. The transition to an automated society brings with it new challenges and a consideration for what has happened in the past; the editors of this book carefully steer the reader through future possibilities and policy outcomes, all the while recognising that whilst such a shift to a robotised society will be a gradual process, it is one that requires significant thought and consideration.
Contents
1. Introduction- Robert Skidelsky and Nan Craig.- 2. The Future of Work - Robert Skidelsky.- Part I: Work in the Past.- 3. Patterns and Types of Work in the Past: Part 1 - Richard Donkin.- 4. Patterns and Types of Work in the Past: Part 2 - Richard Sennett.- 5. Patterns and Types of Work in the Past: Wageworker and Housewife from a Global Perspective: Birth, Variations and Limits of the Modern Couple- Andrea Komlosy.- Part II: Attitudes to Work.- 6. Attitudes to Work and the Future of Work: the view from economics - David A. Spencer.- 7. Attitudes to Work - Pierre-Michel Menger.- 8. Work as an Obligation - Nan Craig.- Part III: Attitudes to Technology.- 9. Attitudes to Technology: Part 1 - Jim Bessen.- 10. Attitudes to Technology: Part 2 - Carl Benedikt Frey.- Part IV: Possibilities and Limitations for AI: What can't machines do?.- 11. What Computers Will Never Be Able To Do - Thomas Tozer.- 12. Possibilities and Limitations for AI: what can't machines do? - Simon Colton.- Part V: Work in the Digital Economy.- 13. Work in the Digital Economy - Daniel Susskind.- 14.Two Myths about the Future of the Economy - Nick Srnicek.- Part VI: AI, Work and Ethics.- 15. AI, Ethics, and the Law - Cathy O'Neil.- Part VII: Policy.- 16. Policy for the Future of Work - David Graeber.- 17. Automation and Working Time in the UK - Rachel Kay.- 18. Shaping the Work of the Future: Policy Implications - Irmgard Nubler.
