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Automation anxiety : why and how to save work / Cynthia Estlund.
By: Estlund, Cynthia [author.]
Series: Oxford scholarship online: Publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2021Description: 1 online resource (248 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780197566138 (ebook) :Subject(s): Labor laws and legislation -- United States | Labor supply -- Effect of technological innovations on -- United States | Employees -- Effect of automation on -- United StatesAdditional Physical Form: Print version : 9780197566107DDC classification: 344.7301 LOC classification: KF3321 | .E88 2021Online resources: Oxford scholarship online Summary: 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 labour. 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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| ebook | House of Lords Library - Palace Online access | 1 | Available |
Also issued in print: 2021.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 labour. 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.
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on July 9, 2021).