Automation Anxiety

Why and How to Save Work

Cynthia Estlund (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

248 Seiten

2021
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-756610-7 (ISBN)

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Are super-capable robots and algorithms destined to devour our jobs and idle much of the adult population? Predictions of a jobless future have recurred in waves since the advent of industrialization, only to crest and retreat as new jobs-usually better ones-have replaced those lost to machines. But there's good reason to believe that this time is different. Ongoing innovations in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and robotics are already destroying more decent middle-skill jobs than they are creating, and may be leading to a future of growing job scarcity. But there are many possible versions of that future, ranging from utterly dystopian to humane and broadly appealing. It all depends on how we respond.

This book confronts the hotly-debated prospect of mounting job losses due to automation, and the widely-divergent hopes and fears that prospect evokes, and proposes a strategy for both mitigating the losses and spreading the gains from shrinking demand for human labor. We should set our collective sights, it argues, on ensuring access to adequate incomes, more free time, and decent remunerative work even in a future with less of it. Getting there will require not a single "magic bullet" solution like universal basic income or a federal job guarantee but a multi-pronged program centered on conserving, creating, and spreading work. What the book proposes for a foreseeable future of less work will simultaneously help to address growing economic inequality and persistent racial stratification, and makes sense here and now but especially as we face the prospect of net job losses.

Cynthia Estlund is the Catherine A. Rein Professor at New York University's School of Law. She has written widely on the law and policy of work, including three prior books, Working Together: How Workplace Bonds Strengthen a Diverse Democracy (2003), Regoverning the Workplace: From Self-Regulation to Co-Regulation (2010), and A New Deal for China's Workers? (2017).

Preface

Chapter 1: Is This Time Different?
Chapter 2: Forecasting the Impact of Automation on Jobs
Chapter 3: What's Law Got To Do With It?
Chapter 4: Three Goals for a Future of Less Work
Chapter 5: Three Big Ideas (and Some Big Concerns)
Chapter 6: Creating and Conserving Work
Chapter 7: Spreading Work and Supporting Incomes
Chapter 8: Footing the Bill
Chapter 9: The Politics of Hope and Fear in a Future of Less Work

Erscheinungsdatum	02.08.2021
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	245 x 164 mm
Gewicht	490 g
Themenwelt	Informatik ► Theorie / Studium ► Künstliche Intelligenz / Robotik
	Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► IT-Recht
ISBN-10	0-19-756610-3 / 0197566103
ISBN-13	978-0-19-756610-7 / 9780197566107
Zustand	Neuware