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The job race: Machines versus humans | VOX, CEPR’s Policy Portal

The job race: Machines versus humans | VOX, CEPR’s Policy Portal | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
Concerns that new digital technologies, artificial intelligence, and robotics will create widespread technological non-employment are now widespread. Various recent labour market trends, ranging from declines in US labour force participation to increases in wage inequality and the share of capital in national income, are seen as harbingers of this new normal (e.g. Brynjolfsson and McAfee 2012, Akst 2014, Autor 2015, Karabarbounis and Neiman 2014, Oberfield and Raval 2014).
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The way we think about work is broken

The way we think about work is broken | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
What makes work satisfying? Apart from a paycheck, there are intangible values that, Barry Schwartz suggests, our current way of thinking about work simply ignores. It's time to stop thinking of workers as cogs on a wheel.
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A World Without Work

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For centuries, experts have predicted that machines would make workers obsolete. That moment may finally be arriving. Could that be a good thing?
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Against meaninglessness and precarity: the crisis of work

Against meaninglessness and precarity: the crisis of work | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
An exclusive excerpt from David Frayne’s contribution to ROAR Issue #2, ‘The Future of Work’, scheduled for release in June/July.
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Exploring the Future of Work: A New Definition of "Work"

Exploring the Future of Work: A New Definition of "Work" | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
Last month, I shared the Future of Work Manifesto as a starter for a series of discussions around the Future of Work. In this post, I'd like to talk about what we actually mean by work. Has t
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preparing for 2020

preparing for 2020 | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it

We cannot look at the 2020 workplace merely from the perspective of what will be different from today, as if these five years will pass in splendid isolation. How we think of work has changed over the millennia and one major factor has been our communications technologies. When communication changes, work does too, as well as our understanding of what is knowledge, and what it means to be knowledgeable.

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