Autowork: Robotics, Automation and Work Futures

by Håkon Fyhn, Mark Andrejevic, Mark Kharas, Debora Lanzeni, Kristoffer Nergård

Overview

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This book explores how automation and digital technologies are changing work and work-life across industries, offering accessible insights based on extensive international research into the experiences of workers facing these rapid transformations.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781529256932
Publisher:	Bristol University Press
Publication date:	07/01/2026
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

2. What is work automation?

3. What is work and how is it changing?

4. Who are the workers and who will they be?

5. Who are the worker robots?

6. Re-imagining work futures