"None of us has ever lived through a genuine industrial revolution. Until now. Digital technology is transforming every corner of the economy, fundamentally altering the way things are done, who does them, and what they earn for their efforts. In The Wealth of Humans, Economist editor Ryan Avent...

1. Introduction- Robert Skidelsky and Nan Craig -- 2. The Future of Work - Robert Skidelsky -- Part I: Work in the Past -- 3. Patterns and Types of Work in the Past: Part 1 - Richard Donkin -- 4. Patterns and Types of Work in the Past: Part 2 - Richard Sennett -- 5. Patterns and Types of Work in...

This paper looks at the notion of work historically and how new meanings have enriched this notion over centuries. It then analyses the importance Europeans give to the concept of work, and presents the ongoing discourse on technological revolution and its impact on work and employment. The...

"A down-and-out so-and-so gets more than he bargained for when a wave of automation sweeps him and his kind out to an oil-black, petroleum-stink sea of indolent excess and the promise of A WORLD WITHOUT WORK."