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We Are Not Machines : The Fight for the Future of Work
Overview
"Original and enlightening....the kind of writing that AI will never replace."--The Times
Automation was promised to free us from drudgery. Instead, it is turning creative and essential work into dehumanizing labor. In this deeply reported investigation, award-winning Financial Times journalist Sarah O'Connor exposes how AI and robotics are reshaping the modern workplace. Traveling from Amazon warehouses and long-haul trucking routes to Orwellian corporate offices using AI hiring algorithms, O'Connor documents a disturbing reality: workers aren't being liberated by machines--they are being paced, monitored, and crunched by them. As O'Connor asks: "We think we're robotizing our work, but what if we're actually robotizing ourselves?" Drawing lines of descent from nineteenth-century English cotton mills to twenty-first-century Swedish mines, O'Connor shows that our struggle against algorithmic management is not new. Inspiring and urgent, this book charts a vital path forward to reclaim work that respects human limits and honors the capacity of the human mind.Customers Also Bought
Details
- ISBN-13: 9781567928365
- ISBN-10: 1567928366
- Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
- Publish Date: August 2026
- Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.6 x 1.2 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
- Page Count: 248
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