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A world without work : technology, automation, and how we should respond  Cover Image Book Book

A world without work : technology, automation, and how we should respond / Daniel Susskind.

Susskind, Daniel, (author.).

Summary:

"A down-and-out so-and-so gets more than he bargained for when a wave of automation sweeps him and his kind out to an oil-black, petroleum-stink sea of indolent excess and the promise of A WORLD WITHOUT WORK"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781250173515
  • ISBN: 1250173515
  • ISBN: 9781250808257
  • Physical Description: x, 305 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York, NY : Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company, 2020.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
A History of Misplaced Anxiety -- The Age of Labour -- The Pragmatist Revolution -- Underestimating Machines -- Task Encroachment -- Frictional Technological Unemployment -- Structural Technological Unemployment -- Technology and Inequality -- The Response -- Education and Its Limits -- The Big State -- Big Tech -- Meaning and Purpose.
Subject: Automation > Social aspects.
Technology > Social aspects.
Social change.

Available copies

  • 3 of 3 copies available at Lehigh Valley Library System.
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Allentown Public Library System. (Show)

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 3 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Allentown Public Library 331.25 SUSS (Text) 34455006683912 Adult Nonfiction 2nd FL Available -
Bethlehem Main Library 331.25 (Text) 33062009244840 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Easton Main Library 331.25 S964w (Text) 31901004418895 Adult Nonfiction Available -


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