Empowering Workers in an Age of Automation

Social Justice, Technology, and the Future of Work

Tom Parr (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

336 Seiten

2025
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-884912-4 (ISBN)

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Empowering Workers in an Age of Automation explores how labour market policymakers should respond to the threats and opportunities that arise from automation, artificial intelligence, and other forms of technological progress. The book's aim is twofold. First, it is to develop and defend a novel philosophical framework for theorizing about the demands of social justice in the labour market, which Parr calls 'the empowerment model'. At the heart of this view is a concern for fairness and, more specifically, a concern for the growing inequality in prospects between members of the working-class and their middle- and upper-class counterparts. Second, it is to examine a range of concrete political controversies relating to labour markets and the future of work in the light of the empowerment model. The analysis presented is wide-ranging, and includes discussion of technological unemployment, the four day work week, the gender earnings gap, working from home, and role of higher education.

Throughout the text, Parr is keen to caution against sensationalist narratives, and instead emphasizes the more prosaic but still hugely consequential ways in which technology is changing how we work. To do this, he draws on a wealth of empirical research, and extensively from findings in labour economics. The result is a book that takes seriously, and aims to shed light on, some of the most pressing challenges that we actually face.

Tom Parr is an Associate Professor in Political Theory in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick. He has held previous positions at the University of Essex, Graz University, Princeton University, and Universitat Pompeu Fabra. He is Editor-in-Chief of Law, Ethics and Philosophy.

I.1: Introduction
Part I. Theory
1: The Empowerment Model
2: Occupational Harms (and Benefits)
3: Beyond Bargaining Power
PART II. PRACTICE
4: The Significance of Employment
5: Work Hours and Free Time
6: Gender Earnings Gaps
7: Towards a Legal Right to Work from Home
8: The Higher Education Wage Premium
Conclusion
References
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	14.05.2025
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	164 x 242 mm
Gewicht	632 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
ISBN-10	0-19-884912-5 / 0198849125
ISBN-13	978-0-19-884912-4 / 9780198849124
Zustand	Neuware