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Title Confronting dystopia : the new technological revolution and the future of work / edited by Eva Paus.

Publication Info. Ithaca ; London : ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2018.

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Description 1 online resource (307 pages)
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Note "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.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 Nubler -- 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 Martinez Franzoni and Diego Sanchez-Ancochea.
Note Description based on print version record.
Subject Employees -- Effect of technological innovations on -- Congresses.
Industrial relations -- Effect of technological innovations on -- Congresses.
Work environment -- Technological innovations -- Congresses.
Technological unemployment -- Congresses.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Paus, Eva, editor.
Container of (work): Ford, Martin (Martin R.). Rise of the robots.
Other Form: Print version: Confronting dystopia : the new technological revolution and the future of work. Ithaca ; London : ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2018 307 pages 9781501719875 (DLC) 2017057124
ISBN 9781501719875
9781501719868 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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