Automation and the Future of Work

Aaron Benanav demolishes the popular myths around automation -- Ben Tarnoff, editor of Logic magazine A powerful and persuasive explanation of why capitalism can't create jobs or generate incomes for a majority of humanity. -- Mike Davis, author of Set the Night on Fire An excellent, insightful account of the contours of our present labor crisis. Benanav articulately makes the case for a post-scarcity future. -- Robert Skidelsky, biographer of John Maynard Keynes A highly quantitative analysis of the nature of contemporary unemployment flowers into something quite different and unexpected: a qualitative argument for the invention of new collective capacities in a world where work is no longer central to social life. -- Kristin Ross, author of Communal Luxury A rare book that manages to soberly assess the contemporary landscape while keeping a clear eye on our utopian horizons. This is an important intervention into current discussions around technology and work - and a must-read for anyone who believes capitalist decay is not the only future. * Nick Srnicek, author of Platform Capitalism * Benanav dissects and disproves the idea that automation is eradicating work ... We don't need to wait for robots to do all the work; we can collectively decide what we need, then plan the economy to achieve it. -- Paris Marx * Passage * Thought-provoking ... packs quite a punch of macroeconomics and practical philosophy. -- International Policy Digest He can write movingly and do so on a global scale -- Patrick McGinty * Pittsburgh Post Gazette * The two parts of Benanav's book-analytic and utopian-correspond to the two halves of the Marxian project: to both interpret the world, and change it -- Lola Seaton * New Statesman * Compelling reading. A rising star among the intelligentsia of the left * Dublin Review of Books * A powerful critique ... [Benanav] carefully chart[s] how our economic system is unable to deliver further social progress and ... set[s] out a believable vision of a non-capitalist future. -- Alexis Moraitis * ROAR * Crucial ... Automation and the Future of Work is impressively multifaceted for such a short text ... an excellent book. -- Mack Penner * Labour / Le Travail * Automation and the Future of Work gathers significant cold water to pour on automation's fever dreams. -- Amelia Horgan * Radical Philosophy * Important ... an eye-opening perspective for a convincing and encouraging political project -- Goerkem Giray * Marx & Philosophy Review of Books *