Automation and the Future of Work

Silicon Valley titans, politicians, techno-futurists and social critics have united in arguing that we are living on the cusp of an era of rapid technological automation, heralding the end of work as we know it. But does the much-discussed "rise of the robots" really explain the worsening jobs crisis?

In Automation and the Future of Work, Aaron Benanav uncovers the structural economic trends that ...