The brutal truth behind our automated futures and the new world of work We are told that the future of work will be increasingly automated. Algorithms, processing massive amounts of information at startling speed, will lead us to a new world of effortless labour and a post-work utopia of ever expanding leisure. But behind the gleaming surface stands millions of workers, often i...(展开全部)

Work Want Work considers in captivating detail how a logic of work has become integral to everything we do, even as the place of formal work has become increasingly precarious. With reference to sociological data, philosophy, political theory, legislation, the testimonies of workers and an eclectic mix of cultural texts – from Lucian Freud to Google, Anthony Giddens to selfies,...(展开全部)

One of the most important works of cultural theory ever written, Walter Benjamin's groundbreaking essay explores how the age of mass media means audiences can listen to or see a work of art repeatedly – and what the troubling social and political implications of this are. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves – and...(展开全部)

The first comprehensive account of the growing dominance of the intangible economy Early in the twenty-first century, a quiet revolution occurred. For the first time, the major developed economies began to invest more in intangible assets, like design, branding, R&D, and software, than in tangible assets, like machinery, buildings, and computers. For all sorts of businesses, fr...(展开全部)

乔纳森•哈斯克尔（Jonathan Haskel） 英国帝国理工大学经济学教授、博士生课程主任，他也曾在布里斯托尔大学和伦敦商学院任教，是美国达特茅斯学院塔克商学院的客座教授。作为英国皇家经济学理事会成员和“研究、创新、科学政策专家高级别小组”的成员，哈斯克尔常年为欧盟提供政策建议。 斯蒂安•韦斯特莱克（Stian Westlake） 英国国家创新基金会（Nasta）高级研究员,曾是英国教育大臣的政策顾问。韦斯特莱克毕业于牛津大学和伦敦商学院，他的主要研究方向是创新、政策和新技术之间的联系。

鲍勃•赫普尔(Bob Hepple，1934—2015），勋爵，曾任剑桥大学克莱尔学院院长。他兼任劳动法研究会（Industrial Law Society）的荣誉会长，平权信托(Equal Rights Trust)的荣誉理事长，在侵权责任法、行政法、劳动法、反歧视法等领域著述颇丰，在劳动法研究领域是英国乃至欧洲公认的顶级专家。 赫普尔教授曾长期担任英国《劳动法百科全书》的主编，并牵头协调欧洲范围内的劳动法研究资源，主编了《欧洲劳动法的形成》与《欧洲劳动法的演进》两部欧洲劳动法比较历史研究的恢弘巨著，在比较法领域享有盛誉。 李满奎，男，法学博士，西南政法大学经济法学院教授，博士研究生导师，主要从事劳动与社会保障法的教学和研究工作，在《环球法律评论》、Industrial Relations/ Relations Industrielles、Jour...(展开全部)

Extraordinary innovations in technology promise to transform the world, but how realistic is the claim that AI will change our lives? In this much needed book the acclaimed economist Roger Bootle responds to the fascinating economic questions posed by the age of the robot, steering a path away from tech jargon and alarmism towards a rational explanation of the ways in which the...(展开全部)

Half a century ago Horkheimer and Adorno argued, with great prescience, that our increasingly rationalized and Westernized world was witnessing the emergence of a new kind of barbarism, thanks in part to the stultifying effects of the culture industries. What they could not foresee was that, with the digital revolution and the pervasive automation associated with it, the develo...(展开全部)

Half a century ago Horkheimer and Adorno argued, with great prescience, that our increasingly rationalized and Westernized world was witnessing the emergence of a new kind of barbarism, thanks in part to the stultifying effects of the culture industries. What they could not foresee was that, with the digital revolution and the pervasive automation associated with it, the develo...(展开全部)