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- Bridges all the social science disciplines
- Argues that it's a big mistake to imagine that technology itself – whatever its potential for liberation – will actually lead to freedom for workers
- Goes beyond utopian or dystopian views of new technologies
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book provides a detailed analysis of the economic and political implications of the introduction of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics into the service sector of economies that have so far relied on service jobs to sustain levels of employment. It examines how reliance on coercive measures for enforcing low-paid service work attempts to postpone this third Industrial Revolution, and analyses the struggles that must still take place if we are to achieve a future of freedom and social justice for all. While automation and globalisation have made human solidarities of traditional kinds more difficult to sustain, they have also made new kinds possible. Experiments in social policy, and especially the pilot projects with unconditional Universal Basic Incomes, offer a possible model for a new kind of society. The author argues that it is politics which will determine whether we can achieve these new human solidarities.
Authors and Affiliations
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School of Social Science and Social Work, University of Plymouth, Exeter, UK
Bill Jordan
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Automation and Human Solidarity
Authors: Bill Jordan
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-36959-0
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-36958-3Published: 26 January 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-36959-0Published: 25 January 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 151
Topics: Social Policy, Political Theory, Political Sociology, Robotics, Public Policy, Democracy