David Blustein and Lisa Flores have just released a fantastic new book entitled Rethinking work: Essays on building a better workplace.
The book consists of 45 brief essays by thought-leaders, scholars, activists, psychologists, and social scientists about the contemporary landscape of work and the workplace. On the way it seeks to imagine new kinds of workplace and to promote policies that support decent work for all.
Collectively the book argues that work, as a social institution, needs to be systematically understood, critiqued, reimagined, and rebuilt. It suggests a range of new work arrangements, individual strategies for enhancing one’s work life, and recommendations for innovative systemic and institutional reforms.
The book includes a chapter by me entitled On embracing automation and loving work: Or why we should not be afraid of our washing machines in which I complain about having to do the washing for my teenaged children and use it as a way to rethink work in the face of the rising robots.
Intrigued?
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