Will new technologies make or break our jobs? Book discussion with Sarah O’Connor

New technologies have been creating and destroying jobs for millennia. In recent decades, automation has upended the way many people work, and now artificial intelligence threatens further upheaval. The impact of these trends is often described in headline job numbers. But what do they actually mean for the way we live our daily working lives? 

In a groundbreaking new book, prize-winning Financial Times journalist Sarah O’Connor sets out to investigate what is happening on the front lines of technological change. She finds people who aren’t losing their jobs to machines, but who feel they are losing something else instead. But she finds hopeful stories, too: of jobs being made better, safer and more enjoyable, and where workers haven’t rejected the new tools, but have instead been able to control them. 

Here Ruth, Sarah and Greg discuss the past, present, and future of technological transformations in the labour market.

Ruth Curtice – Chief Executive Resolution Foundation (Host)

Sarah O'Connor – Columnist, reporter and associate editor at the Financial Times 

Greg Thwaites – Research Associate at the Resolution Foundation  

 
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