Engineering:Post-work society
In futurology, political science, and science fiction, a post-work society is a society in which the nature of work has been radically transformed.
Some post-work theorists imagine the complete automation of all jobs, or at least the automation of all monotonous, repetitive and thus for humans unworthy work.[1] Other theories of post-work society focus more on challenging the priority of the work ethic, and on the celebration of nonwork activities.
Near-term practical proposals closely associated with post-work theory include the implementation of a universal basic income, as well as the reduction of the length of a working day and the number of days of a working week. Increased focus on what post-work society would look like has been driven by reports such as one that states 47% of jobs in the United States could be automated.[2] Because of increasing automation and the low price of maintaining an automated workforce compared to one dependent on human labor, it has also been suggested that post-work societies would also be ones of post-scarcity.[3][4]
Literature
- Daniel Susskind: WORLD WITHOUT WORK: Technology, Automation, and How We Should Respond, 2020, ISBN:9781250173515
See also
- Automation
- Critique of work
- Post-capitalism
- Post-scarcity
- Refusal of work
- Tang ping ("lying flat")
- Technological unemployment
- Universal basic income
- Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work
- The End of Work
- The Future of Work and Death
References
- ↑ Beckett, Andy (19 January 2018). "Post-work: the radical idea of a world without jobs". The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/jan/19/post-work-the-radical-idea-of-a-world-without-jobs. Retrieved 2018-09-15.
- ↑ Frey, Carl Benedikt; Osborne, Michael (13 April 2018). "Automation and the future of work – understanding the numbers". https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/opinion/view/404.
- ↑ Wolla, Scott A. (1 January 2018). "Will Robots Take Our Jobs?". https://research.stlouisfed.org/publications/page1-econ/2018/01/02/will-robots-take-our-jobs.
- ↑ "Traditional employment is becoming obsolete". https://www.futuretimeline.net/23rdcentury/2200-2249.htm#trends-in-working-hours-2050-2100-2200-future-timeline.
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