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Book SynopsisThis short, accessible book seeks to explore the future of work through the views and opinions of a range of expertise, encompassing economic, historical, technological, ethical and anthropological aspects of the debate. The transition to an automated society brings with it new challenges and a consideration for what has happened in the past; the editors of this book carefully steer the reader through future possibilities and policy outcomes, all the while recognising that whilst such a shift to a robotised society will be a gradual process, it is one that requires significant thought and consideration.
Table of Contents1. Introduction- Robert Skidelsky and Nan Craig
2. The Future of Work - Robert Skidelsky
Part I: Work in the Past
3. Patterns and Types of Work in the Past: Part 1 - Richard Donkin4. Patterns and Types of Work in the Past: Part 2 - Richard Sennett5. Patterns and Types of Work in the Past: Wageworker and Housewife from a Global Perspective: Birth, Variations and Limits of the Modern Couple- Andrea Komlosy
Part II: Attitudes to Work
6. Attitudes to Work and the Future of Work: the view from economics - David A. Spencer7. Attitudes to Work – Pierre-Michel Menger8. Work as an Obligation - Nan Craig
Part III: Attitudes to Technology
9. Attitudes to Technology: Part 1 - Jim Bessen10. Attitudes to Technology: Part 2 - Carl Benedikt Frey
Part IV: Possibilities and Limitations for AI: What can’t machines do?
11. What Computers Will Never Be Able To Do - Thomas Tozer12. Possibilities and Limitations for AI: what can’t machines do? - Simon Colton
Part V: Work in the Digital Economy
13. Work in the Digital Economy - Daniel Susskind14.Two Myths about the Future of the Economy - Nick Srnicek
Part VI: AI, Work and Ethics
15. AI, Ethics, and the Law - Cathy O'Neil
Part VII: Policy
16. Policy for the Future of Work - David Graeber17. Automation and Working Time in the UK - Rachel Kay18. Shaping the Work of the Future: Policy Implications - Irmgard Nubler
