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The last human job the work of connecting in a disconnected world

"A timely and urgent argument for preserving the work that connects us in the age of automation. With the rapid development of artificial intelligence and labor-saving technologies like self-checkouts and automated factories, the future of work has never been more uncertain, and even jobs requiring...

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Main Author: Pugh, Allison J. (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2024]
Subjects:
Labor > Social aspects.
Labor > Forecasting.
Industries > Social aspects.
Belonging (Social psychology)
Automation > Economic aspects.
Automation > Human factors.
Labor > Effect of technological innovations on.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. The power of seeing the other
  • The value of connecting
  • The automation frontier
  • How to be a human : connective labor as artisanal practice
  • The social architecture of connective labor
  • Systems come for connective labor
  • Connecting across difference : the power and peril on inequality
  • Doing it right : building a social architecture that works
  • Conclusion. Choosing connection
  • Appendix. "Maybe we're going to turn you into a chaplains" : studying connection.

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