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Title Confronting dystopia : the new technological revolution and the future of work / edited by Eva Paus
Published Ithaca : ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2018
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Description 1 online resource (vi, 296 pages)
Contents The future isn't what it used to be / Eva Paus -- The rise of the robots : impact on unemployment and inequality / Martin Ford -- New technologies, innovation, and the future of jobs / Irmgard Nübler -- Expanding job opportunities through global green growth / Robert Pollin -- Building sustainable jobs and supporting human potential in the care sector / Mignon Duffy -- Taskers in the precariat : confronting an emerging dystopia / Guy Standing -- Automated but compensated? : technological change and redistribution in advanced democracies / David Rueda and Stefan Thewissen -- The crisis of the liberal international order : technological change and the rise of the right / Vinnie Ferraro -- Advanced manufacturing and China's future for jobs / Dieter Ernst -- Light manufacturing can create good jobs in Sub-Saharan Africa / Vandana Chandra -- Why and how to build universal social policy in the South / Juliana Martínez Franzoni and Diego Sánchez-Ancochea
Summary "Assesses economic and political impacts of the worldwide revolution in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and robotics and proposes policies to benefit jobs, working conditions, and incomes in the Global North and the Global South"-- Provided by publisher
Analysis technological change, artificial intelligence, globalization, global economy, inequality
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes "Many of the contributions to this book were presented in an earlier version at the conference, "The future of jobs: the dual challenges of globalization and robotization," that took place at Mount Holyoke College in February 2016"--Acknowledgments
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Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 17, 2018)
Subject Employees -- Effect of technological innovations on -- Congresses
Industrial relations -- Effect of technological innovations on -- Congresses
Work environment -- Technological innovations -- Congresses
Technological unemployment -- Congresses
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
Employees -- Effect of technological innovations on
Industrial relations -- Effect of technological innovations on
Technological unemployment
Work environment -- Technological innovations
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Paus, Eva, editor
Container of (work): Ford, Martin (Martin R.). Rise of the robots
LC no. 2017057124
ISBN 9781501719868
1501719866
9781501719851
1501719858