Preface
Chapter 1: Is This Time Different?
Chapter 2: Forecasting the Impact of Automation on Jobs
Chapter 3: What's Law Got To Do With It?
Chapter 4: Three Goals for a Future of Less Work
Chapter 5: Three Big Ideas (and Some Big Concerns)
Chapter 6: Creating and Conserving Work
Chapter 7: Spreading Work and Supporting Incomes
Chapter 8: Footing the Bill
Chapter 9: The Politics of Hope and Fear in a Future of Less Work
Cynthia Estlund is the Catherine A. Rein Professor at New York University's School of Law. She has written widely on the law and policy of work, including three prior books, Working Together: How Workplace Bonds Strengthen a Diverse Democracy (2003), Regoverning the Workplace: From Self-Regulation to Co-Regulation (2010), and A New Deal for China's Workers? (2017).
Automation Anxiety offers readers a sound and accessible analysis
of how automation will likely shape work into the near future,
along with a bevy of ideas to address it.
*Trevor Brown, PhD Student Department of Government, Cornell
University, ILR Review*
How to generate enough jobs, and especially enough good jobs, in
the age of automation and AI is one of the most momentous
challenges facing us today. This delightful book describes the main
challenges and rightly emphasizes the need for fundamental
institutional and regulatory changes necessary for re-creating
shared prosperity." -Daron Acemoglu, Institute Professor,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Steering clear of the future-of-work tropes of breathless futurist
sci-fi boosterism or doomsaying prognostications of a dystopian
world of robots taking all our jobs, Estlund explores how machine
learning is transforming work for a diverse array of people.
Automation Anxiety melds perceptive analysis and trenchant critique
with bold, constructive, and feasible proposals for policy change.
This is a highly readable diagnosis of what ails today's labor
markets and working conditions and a well-informed and
sophisticated plan for action written by one of today's leading
scholars on the law of work." -Catherine Fisk, Barbara Nachtrieb
Armstrong Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley
Law
Ambitious and pragmatic, visionary and judicious, and a
surpassingly graceful writer, Cynthia Estlund is the country's
premier scholar when it comes to thinking large about the laws and
policies surrounding work in the United States and the world. Her
new book is a must-read for anyone interested in the future of work
in the age of high-tech automation. That future, Estlund shows, is
likely to be one of greatly diminished and often terribly degraded
work for the millions of Americans already hardest hit by wealth
and income inequalities. What is to be done? Estlund's answers are
compelling. Automation Anxiety draws out the best of the big ideas
afoot today, with keen attention to ethno-racial rifts and the
urgent need for a sustainable future for the planet, and therefore,
also for human work." -William E. Forbath, Lloyd M. Bentsen Chair
in Law, Associate Dean of Research, The University of Texas at
Austin
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