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\"Assesses economic and political impacts of the worldwide revolution in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and robotics and proposes policies to benefit jobs, working conditions, and incomes in the Global North and the Global South\"-- Provided by publisher.

InConfronting Dystopia, a distinguished group of scholars analyze the implications of the ongoing technological revolution for jobs, working conditions, and income. Focusing on the economic and political implications of AI, digital connectivity, and robotics for both the Global North and the Global South, they move beyond diagnostics to seek solutions that offer better lives for all. Their analyses of the challenges of technology are placed against the backdrop of three decades of rapid economic globalization. The two in tandem are producing the daunting challenges that analysts and policymakers must now confront. The conjuncture of recent advances in AI, machine learning, and robotization portends a vast displacement of human labor, argues the editor, Eva Paus. AsConfronting Dystopiashows, we are on the eve of-indeed we are already amid-a technological revolution that will impact profoundly the livelihoods of people everywhere in the world. Across a broad and deep set of topics, the contributors explore whether the need for labor will inexorably shrink in the coming decades, how pressure on employment will impact human well-being, and what new institutional arrangements-a new social contract, for example, will be needed to sustain livelihoods. They evaluate such proposals as a basic income, universal social services, and investments that address key global challenges and create new jobs. Contributors:Vandana Chandra, Mignon Duffy, Dieter Ernst, Vincent Ferraro, Martin Ford, Juliana Martinez Franzoni, Irmgard Nubler, Robert Pollin, David Rueda, Diego Sanchez-Ancochea, Guy Standing, Stefan Thewissen

In Confronting Dystopia, a distinguished group of scholars analyze the implications of the ongoing technological revolution for jobs, working conditions, and income. Focusing on the economic and political implications of AI, digital connectivity, and

The diffusion of information and communication technologies is rapidly changing the structure of advanced economies, raising new problems of technological unemployment. The view that market forces can easily counterbalance the labour-saving impact of innovation is contrasted in this book with empirical findings on aggregate compensation effects and on the consequences of product, process and organizational innovation in industries and services. After examining several policy aspects, new employment-friendly economic and innovation policies are proposed. 'Anyone interested in issues around innovation and new technology, and around employment, unemployment and the future of work are highly recommended to read this book.' - Research Policy 'This book constitutes a welcome contribution to the understanding of a crucial, complex, and often wrongly simplified phenomenon.' - Journal of Economics

PEOPLE AND TECHNOLOGY IN THE WORKPLACE -- Copyright -- Preface -- Contents -- Designing For Technological Change: People In The Process -- THE PROBLEM -- LEADERSHIP -- EMPLOYEE INVOLVEMENT -- TRAINING -- INCENTIVES -- ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE -- TECHNOLOGY -- CONCLUSIONS -- Improving the Development, Acceptance, and Use of New Technology: Organizational and Interorganizational Challenges -- THE NATURE OF INNOVATION: WHAT IS KNOWN -- FOCUS: STRATEGY, RESOURCES, REWARDS -- The Business Mix -- The Activity Mix -- Rewards -- FAST: TOWARD MULTIPLE, SPEEDY INNOVATIONS -- Willingness to Be First -- Channels for New Ideas -- Communication Links -- Dismantling Territorial Rivalries and Status Barriers -- Commitment -- FLEXIBILITY: THE USE OF RESOURCES -- Work Systems -- Desperately Seeking Synergies -- Project Flexibility -- FRIENDLY: INTERORGANIZATIONAL COLLABORATION -- Stimulating New Uses for Technology -- Capability Expansion -- Organization-Spanning Technology -- Bridging\" Organizations: Mechanisms for Technology Transfer -- Complexities of Collaboration -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- 1 Automated Manufacturing Technologies -- Capitalizing on New Manufacturing Technologies: Current Problems and Emergent Trends in U.S. Industry -- TECHNOLOGY -- SKILLS -- PROCEDURES -- STRUCTURE -- STRATEGY -- CULTURE -- NEW TECHNOLOGY AND COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE -- REFERENCES -- Design and Implementation of a Process for a Large-Scale System Change at Boeing -- COMPANY OVERVIEW -- A NEW FACILITY: DECISION AND DESIGN -- SOCIO-TECHNICAL SYSTEM -- Design Principles -- Early Implementation -- Labor and Management Cooperation -- LESSONS -- NEXT STEPS -- A Case History of Organizational Change: People and New Technology -- TRADITIONAL APPROACH -- A CONCURRENT APPROACH TO SYSTEM CHANGE -- ORGANIZATIONAL RENEWAL -- A New Shift Schedule -- Individual Performance Appraisals.