The Globotics Upheaval: Globalisation, Robotics and the Future of Work
by Richard Baldwin · 10 Jan 2019 · 301pp · 89,076 words
THE GLOBOTICS UPHEAVAL Globalisation, Robotics, and the Future of Work RICHARD BALDWIN CONTENTS Title Page 1. Introduction PART I Historical Transformation, Upheaval, Backlash, and Resolution 2. We’ve Been Here Before: The Great Transformation 3.
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of the other two. Another lesson from the Great Transformation concerns jobs displacement and job replacement—topics that are at the heart of today’s “future of work” deliberations. Automation and globalization drove a sensational re-orientation of the economy. Taking Britain as an example, the share of workers in industry rose progressively
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-sector companies with essential elements of flexibility. “To keep pace with constant change in the digital era,” noted the Accenture Technology Vision 2017 report: “The future of work has already arrived, and digital leaders are fundamentally reinventing their workforces. . . . The resulting on-demand enterprise will be key to the rapid innovation and organizational
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taking whole occupations; they are taking over some of the activities that make up part of many occupations. This is a critical insight into the future of work. ROBOTS WILL ELIMINATE MANY JOBS BUT FEW OCCUPATIONS Think of your occupation as an imaginary to-do list, a list of “chores” or tasks, a
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Teale, “US Senate Considers ‘Different Possibilities’ to Pass Av START Act,” SmartCitiesDive.com, June 14, 2018. 16. “Stick Shift: Autonomous vehicles, Driving Jobs, and the Future of Work”, Center for Global Policy Solution, March 2017. 17. Quoted in “Anxiety about Automation and Jobs: Will We See Anti-Tech Laws?” James Pethokoukis, www.AEI
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them for more essential tasks. There will long be a demand for having humans in the decision loop. So what does this mean for the future of work? What type of work will be naturally sheltered from AI competition? These are very difficult questions to address given the radical diversity of occupations. To
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current AI capacities. Striking off these AI-exposed occupations from the RI-immune list yields a list that is very interesting for the nature of future of work. The occupations left on the list have a low probability of being displaced by the white-collar robots and a low probability of being replaced
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the jobs of the future. Most of us will work in jobs that resemble but are not actually these jobs. In 1850, for example, the future of work was clear in its general outlines, but not in its details. Sixty percent of people worked on farms in the US and it was clear
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, requires investing in particular forms of knowledge. Another case study in the three rules comes by looking at the way modern corporations are creating the future of work. The Agile Teams Example Something deep is going on in modern companies—digital disruption is what many call it. With technologies and competition accelerating, service
The Year Without Pants: Wordpress.com and the Future of Work
by Scott Berkun · 9 Sep 2013 · 361pp · 76,849 words
Chapter 5: Your Meetings Will Be Typed Notes Chapter 6: The Bazaar at the Cathedral Notes Chapter 7: The Big Talk Notes Chapter 8: The Future of Work, Part 1 Results Trump Traditions Creatives versus Supporters Hire Self-Sufficient, Passionate People Notes Chapter 9: Working the Team Chapter 10: How to Start a
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Ship Notes Chapter 12: Athens Lost and Found Notes Chapter 13: Double Down Notes Chapter 14: There Can Be Only One Notes Chapter 15: The Future of Work, Part 2 Life Without E-Mail Notes Chapter 16: Innovation and Friction Notes Chapter 17: The Intense Debate Notes Chapter 18: Follow the Sun Chapter
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Me the Money Notes Chapter 21: Portland and the Collective Notes Chapter 22: The Bureau of Socialization Chapter 23: Exit Through Hawaii Chapter 24: The Future of Work, Part 3 Notes Epilogue: Where Are They Now? Annotated Bibliography Acknowledgments About the Author More from Wiley Index Photo Credits Praise for The Year Without
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. His insights will make you laugh, think, and ask all the right questions about your own company's culture.” —Gina Trapani, founding editor, Lifehacker “The future of work is distributed. Automattic wrote the script. Time for rest of us to read it.” —Om Malik, founder, GigaOM “Some say the world of work is
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surprised, shocked, delighted, thrilled, and inspired by how WordPress.com gets work done. I was!” —Joe Belfiore, corporate vice president, Microsoft “Most talk of the future of work is just speculation, but Berkun has actually worked there. The Year Without Pants is a brilliant, honest, and funny insider's story of life at
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“A wild behind-the-scenes ride inside one of the most successful and progressive companies on the planet. A timely and prescient view of the future of work.” —Douglas Pyle, vice president, JPMorgan Chase “A personal and deeply insightful account of a new way of working in the connected world. Berkun has written
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information about Wiley products, visit www.wiley.com. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Berkun, Scott. The year without pants : WordPress.com and the future of work / Scott Berkun.— First edition. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-118-66063-8 (hardback); ISBN 978-1-118-72890-1 (ePDF
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at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fireteam. 2 David McCullough, The Great Bridge (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1983), 381. Chapter 8 The Future of Work, Part 1 Books about the future of work make the same mistake: they fail to look back at the history of work or, more precisely, the history of books about the
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future of work and how wrong they were. Few visions of the future come true, as we're very bad at predicting much of anything. Can you guess
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work is what goes on between your ears and between you and your coworkers. The trends and gadgets that make up most conversations about the future of work miss the point. Instead of vice presidents seeing the problem as a lack of a tool or a secret method, they should realize they're
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an environment for autonomous adults—a place for people who know best what they need to do great work. To put my thoughts on the future of work another way, I'm often asked in my work as a writer what the best word processor is to use. My answer is always the
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. Notes 1 Matt Mullenweg, “The Way I Work, Annotated,” June 19, 2009. http://ma.tt/2009/06/the-way-i-work-annotated/. Chapter 15 The Future of Work, Part 2 The title of this book is a reference to a running joke that appeared on Team Social's P2. No one is sure
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castles built with the spent paper cups that had held our last drinks together, standing quietly, listening to the waves roll in. Chapter 24 The Future of Work, Part 3 Here in the last chapter of the book, I can't tell you to simply copy what Automattic has done. It'd be
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meet-ups for; at mini-team meet-up in San Francisco; necessity of Feedback Fogel, Karl Follow the Sun Fontainhas, Zé Fox, Jon Friction Functionality Future of work: creatives vs. supporters and; focus on results vs. traditions in; impossibility of predicting; increasing prevalence of working remotely; meaningful work in; self-sufficient passionate employees
The Job: The Future of Work in the Modern Era
by Ellen Ruppel Shell · 22 Oct 2018 · 402pp · 126,835 words
a hint of what we need (beyond wishes) to boost more of us up into the saddle. The fourth and final section is where the future of work comes alive: a philosopher turned sausage maker in Helsinki, Finland; a designer of motorcycles in Brooklyn; a twenty-four-year-old broom maker in Kentucky
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” our preferences and use that information to make values-based assessments to influence our decisions and, ultimately, our behavior. What might this portend for the future of work? The answer to that question is as nervous making as it is uncertain. What we do know is that the allocation of tasks between humans
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than 3 percent of US workers—not much of a platform upon which to build a strong economy. And clinging to the idea that the future of work hinges on our incentivizing entrepreneurship risks urging on what economists call “unproductive entrepreneurs” who create little value and few if any new jobs. Our capacity
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so much as in sobriety. While AGC Glass and similar employers may not be what most of us think of when we think of the future of work, perhaps they should be. Paul Beaudry, the outspoken Canadian economist we met in an earlier chapter, put it starkly: “New technology tends to be biased
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. “That is, to empower our employees to think independently, as entrepreneurs and engineers, and to compensate them to do so. I believe that is the future of work not only here in Lawrence, but other cities around the world. And it’s up to us to build—and support—that future.” 9 THE
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January 2018 the chief economist at the World Bank, teaches at the Stern School of Business at New York University. Romer has argued that the future of work depends most critically on “meta-ideas” that support the production and transmission of other ideas. The nation that takes the lead in this effort, he
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policies that lift up the less fortunate, sustain the middle class, and encourage true innovation. What the Finnish story tells us is that foretelling the future of work is no easier than foretelling the future of anything—“common wisdom” can lead us astray. Clearly, it is time to think—and act—anew. 12
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, not of shorter work hours, but of no work hours. The Basic Income Guarantee (BIG) has become central to almost any public consideration of the future of work, in particular by Silicon Valley elites who worry about the shrinking capacity of humans to compete with their ever-more-clever creations. BIG has been
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immediate societal benefits and would encourage a more equitable distribution of income of the sort that powers the virtuous cycle of supply and demand. The future of work depends less on our digital creations than on our collective imagination. New computational, statistical, and data-gathering techniques have made it possible for us to
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2012 Conference in Tucson. See John Markoff, Andrew McAfee, and Rodney Brooks, “Where’s My Robot?,” Techonomy, November 2012, http://techonomy.com/conf/12-tucson/future-of-work/wheres-my-robot/. the Weather Channel broadcasts 18 million forecasts John Koetsier, “Data Deluge: What People Do on the Internet, Every Minute of Every Day
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, founder of the International Institute of Innovation Journalism and Communication (IIIJ) and organizer of a series of top-level conferences focused on innovation and the future of work. David, who was kind enough to invite me to the meeting in Lund, Sweden, was also kind enough to share his thoughts on the
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future of work in a private conversation. nobody “can look forward to the age of leisure” John Maynard Keynes, “Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren” [1930], in Revisiting Keynes:
Gigged: The End of the Job and the Future of Work
by Sarah Kessler · 11 Jun 2018 · 246pp · 68,392 words
copyright, please notify the publisher at: us.macmillanusa.com/piracy. For my family: Debra, Steve, Richard, and Alex Preface When I first heard about the “future of work” in 2011, I was working as a reporter at a tech blog—a job that involved wading through an endless stream of startup pitches. This
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the end of drudgery. The idea was deeply appealing to me. In addition to sounding like more fun than a job, this version of the future of work relieved a deep uncertainty I had about the future. From a young age, my baby boomer parents had instilled in me that the mission of
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gig economy start a much-needed conversation about protecting workers as technology transforms work. The more I learned, the more I understood that the startup “future of work” story, as consoling as it was, was also incomplete. Yes, the gig economy could create opportunity for some people, but it also could amplify the
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; and what became known as the “gig economy” would attract attention to the ways in which the rest of the economy was unprepared for the future of work. But at the height of “Uber for X,” few people in the startup world batted an eye. As the then-CEO of the odd job
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in April. Now it had just six weeks to both build the technology from scratch and figure out how to clean office buildings. Though the “future of work” would eventually become an important part of the Managed by Q story, Saman, Emma, and Dan didn’t think about the gig economy or how
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they can have a more flexible schedule.” It wasn’t too far of a jump to extend this success story into a vision for the future of work, especially as on-demand apps launched for specific professionals like programmers, lawyers, interior designers, and even doctors. “Uber, and more broadly the app-driven labor
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price back up. In practice, this wasn’t how it always played out. As Ethan Pollack, an economist who works with the Aspen Institute’s “Future of Work” initiative, explained to me: While it’s possible that lowering of per-trip payments would result in drivers receiving more money, it’s unlikely, and
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ghost town than the future of labor organizing.26 CHAPTER 11 UBER FOR POLITICS Politicians noticed the gig economy and its promise to shape the future of work sometime around 2015. That September, I met Mark Warner, the senior US senator from Virginia, in New York City, at one of those hole-in
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problems that they’re dealing with, you may eventually be dealing with.”28 As with anything related to changes wrought by the tech sector, the “future of work” panel circuit boomed. (“I want to start a conference about the ‘present of work,’” joked Managed by Q’s Dan Teran, who made frequent appearances
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. Two years after Harris and Krueger proposed a third category of workers in the United States, the idea had largely faded from discussions about the future of work. Two years after Handy circulated a draft of the New York state bill, it still had not made it to the legislative docket. Other attempts
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(the other two used the grants to conduct research on the barriers that low-wage workers faced in saving for retirement). On panels about the future of work, nearly everyone could agree that the current social safety net and worker classification systems were no longer adequate. But actually implementing changes—which would require
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on specifics, experiments that proved feasibility, and passage through a slow law-making process—was more likely to take decades than years. PART V THE FUTURE OF WORK CHAPTER 12 PIVOT In the spring of 2016, Managed by Q leased a new office in a New York City skyscraper. The company had grown
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startup, but it had survived. * * * In 2014, Trebor Scholz, a professor at the New School in New York City, left a conference panel about “the future of work,” as he put it to me, “with the words of a Mechanical Turk worker ringing in my ears.” The panel had discussed how little voice
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from offering workers more support. The problem, Oisin had argued in a Wired op-ed headlined “We Must Protect the Gig Economy to Protect the Future of Work,” was that “the current regulations never contemplated these new ways to work.”7 Why hadn’t Handy, Jon wanted to know, been more vocal about
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work was changing. The results sat in two bulging canvas bags on his kitchen table. One was filled with manila folders labeled “platform economics” and “future of work.” They were stuffed with white copy paper, clipped together in sections with black clamps. The other was filled with books: David Weil’s book about
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; 220 of them, hourly employees, had just received their first stock grants. It wasn’t clear exactly what Dan had to gain by studying the “future of work” so ambitiously. Maybe he was, with his stack of books, preparing to promote Managed by Q as a good partner for small businesses, or for
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like Social Security, unemployment insurance, the minimum wage, and disability insurance. The gig economy, it turns out, is not the on-demand improvement to the “future of work” that its creators once imagined. But it will play an important role in exemplifying what that future might look like, and the slow, hard work
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-in-america/. 5 Hanrahan, Disin. We Must Protect the On-Demand Economy to Protect the Future of Work. Wired. November 9, 2015. http://www.wired.com/2015/11/we-must-protect-the-on-demand-economy-to-protect-the-future-of-work/. 6 Wheeler, Brian. Gig Economy Workers “Like the Flexibility.” BBC. October 5, 2017. http://www
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.epi.org/blog/risk-shift-and-the-gig-economy/. 27 Mishel, Lawrence. Uber Is Not the Future of Work. The Atlantic. November 16, 2015. https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/11/uber-is-not-the-future-of-work/415905/. 28 The American Presidency Project. 706—Remarks at a White House Summit on Worker Voice Question
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-get-a-bonus.92609/. 2 The book is called Ours to Hack and to Own: The Rise of Platform Cooperativism, A New Vision for the Future of Work and a Fairer Internet. 3 Holmberg, Susan. Fighting Short-Termism with Worker Power. The Roosevelt Institute. October 2017. 4 Holmberg, Susan. Want to Fix US
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Gig Economy. 7 Oisin, Hanrahan. We Must Protect the On-Demand Economy to Protect the Future of Work. Wired. November 9, 2015. https://www.wired.com/2015/11/we-must-protect-the-on-demand-economy-to-protect-the-future-of-work/. 8 Lyft Blog. Lyft × Honest Dollar: Introducing Savings and Retirement Solutions for Lyft Drivers. November
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/943899/a-timeline-of-when-self-driving-cars-will-be-on-the-road-according-to-the-people-making-them/. 4 McKinsey Global Institute. What the Future of Work Will Mean for Jobs, Skills, and Wages. November 2017. https://www.mckinsey.com/global-themes/future-of-organizations-and-work/what-the
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-future-of-work-will-mean-for-jobs-skills-and-wages. 5 Lynley, Matthew. Travis Kalanick Says Uber Has 40 Million Monthly Users. TechCrunch. October 19, 2016. https://techcrunch.
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history of online freelancing iCEO and internet freelance marketplaces statistics temporary employees versus traditional model unionization of See also Gigster; Upwork Freelancers Union Friedman, Thomas “future of work” “Future of Work” initiative (Aspen Institute) Getty Images Gibbon, Kevin gig economy automation and bonus structure capital investment and continued relevance of cooperatives decline of earnings employee model
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war with Uber retirement savings and stop-gap technology and tips and Managed by Q (property maintenance service) career development and employee model and funding “future of work” and Good Jobs Strategy and knolling labor and marketplace mentors New York City office operator assemblies operators (frontline workers) origin and theory of positive touchpoints
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website) Zaarly (online marketplace) Zirtual (virtual assistant services) Zuckerberg, Mark About the Author SARAH KESSLER is a reporter at Quartz, where she writes about the future of work. Before joining Quartz in 2016, she covered the gig economy as a senior writer at Fast Company and managed startup coverage at Mashable. Her reporting
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Don’t Call Us 9 The Good Jobs Strategy PART IV Backlash 10 The Medium Is the Movement 11 Uber for Politics PART V The Future of Work 12 Pivot 13 A Very Serious Issue Epilogue Acknowledgments Notes Index About the Author Copyright GIGGED. Copyright © 2018 by Sarah Kessler. All rights reserved. For
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.com The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows: Names: Kessler, Sarah, author. Title: Gigged: the end of the job and the future of work / Sarah Kessler. Description: New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2018. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2018000121 | ISBN 9781250097897 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781250097903 (ebook) Subjects
Ours to Hack and to Own: The Rise of Platform Cooperativism, a New Vision for the Future of Work and a Fairer Internet
by Trebor Scholz and Nathan Schneider · 14 Aug 2017 · 237pp · 67,154 words
nineteenth-century factory floors. By considering the emerging platforms in light of well-hewn cooperative principles and practices, we find an optimistic vision for the future of work and life. Already, this strategy is catching on. Workers, organizers, developers, and social entrepreneurs around the world are experimenting with cooperative platforms and forming conversations
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many platforms were rewritten in the boardrooms of Silicon Valley, turning the “sharing economy” into a misnomer. Today, facing various prophecies about sharing and the future of work, we need to remind ourselves that there is no unstoppable evolution leading to the uberization of society; more positive alternatives are possible. In Average Is
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systems like Amazon Mechanical Turk or content moderation farms in the Philippines. Over the past few years, the search for concrete alternatives for a better future of work has become more dynamic. The theory of platform cooperativism has two main tenets: communal ownership and democratic governance. It is bringing together 135 years of
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. We have to design for tomorrow’s labor market. In the absence of rigorous democratic debates, online labor behemoths are producing their version of the future of work right in front of us. We have to move quickly. Together with cities like Berlin, Barcelona, Paris, and Rio de Janeiro, which have already pushed
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. We must stand together and create places of work that allow the crowd to set its own standards, enact its own protections, and alter the future of work to be balanced between worker and employer rights. We cannot do so without listening to the voices of those who are already using such platforms
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, creating benefits similar to those found in large corporations while retaining decentralized ownership. The fund invests in platform tech companies that are working on the future of work, insurance, the sharing economy, decentralized internet, and open data. It leaves voting rights with entrepreneurs and its investment strategy is evergreen rather than exit-driven
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contemporary university. Yet, as the university continues to grasp at entrepreneurial straws, it overlooks an opportunity to reconnect public higher education to the (rather unknown) future of work. While coding may sound like a solution to current market woes, in truth, it will only delay the eventual degradation of such digital labor. When
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leader at Wellmont Health System, as a member of Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick’s administration, and as a consultant at Accenture. Kati Sipp is the Future of Work Campaigns Director for the National Guestworkers Alliance. She created the blog Hack the Union, which focuses on the intersections of work, organizing, and technology. She
Automation and the Future of Work
by Aaron Benanav · 3 Nov 2020 · 175pp · 45,815 words
Benanav First published by Verso 2020 © Aaron Benanav 2020 An earlier version of this text appeared as “Automation and the Future of Work,” New Left Review, nos. 119, Sept.–Oct. 2019 and 120, Nov.–Dec. 2019. All rights reserved The moral rights of the author have been asserted
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the right. See Jamie Merchant, “Fantasies of Secession: A Critique of Left Economic Nationalism,” Brooklyn Rail, February 2018. 2 See, inter alia, Darrell West, The Future of Work: Robots, AI, and Automation, Brookings Institution Press, 2018, p. 139; Andrew Yang, The War on Normal People: The Truth about America’s Disappearing Jobs and
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been influenced by Murray’s work. See Brynjolfsson and McAfee, Second Machine Age, pp. 234–7; Ford, Rise of the Robots, pp. 262–3; West, Future of Work, pp. 99–100; and Lowrey, Give People Money, pp. 128–30. Andy Stern narrates a fictional conversation between Murray and Martin Luther King: Raising the
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. 15, no. 5, 1986; and Peter Frase, Four Futures: Life after Capitalism, Verso, 2016, pp. 54–8. 40 Keynes, “Economic Possibilities,” pp. 366–7; West, Future of Work, pp. 83–8. See also Manu Saadia, Trekonomics: The Economics of Star Trek, Inkshares, 2016; as well as Iain M. Banks’s Culture series. The
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