Automation and the Future of Work

A consensus-shattering account of automation technologies and their effect on workplaces and the labor market

Silicon Valley titans, politicians, techno-futurists and social critics have united in arguing that we are living on the cusp of an era of rapid technological automation, heralding the end of work as we know it. But does the much-discussed "rise of the robots" really explain the jobs crisis that awaits us on the other side of the coronavirus?

In Automation and the Future of Work, Aaron Benanav uncovers the structural economic trends that will shape our working lives far into the future. 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 universal basic income that would maintain a growing army of redundant workers, he offers a counter-proposal.

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
ISBN13: 9781839761294
ISBN10: 1839761296
BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | Public Policy | Science & Technology Policy
- Political Science | Labor & Industrial Relations
- Political Science | History & Theory | General

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.