Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. 1. The Future Isn’t What It Used to Be 1
5. Part I. Trends: Job Destruction and Job Creation
6. 2. The Rise of the Robots: Impact on Unemployment and Inequality 27
7. 3. New Technologies, Innovation, and the Future of Jobs 46
8. 4. Expanding Job Opportunities through Global Green Growth 76
9. 5. Building Sustainable Jobs and Supporting Human Potential in the Care Sector 94
10. Part II. Risks and Repercussions: Alternative Futures
11. 6. Taskers in the Precariat: Confronting an Emerging Dystopia 115
12. 7. Automated but Compensated? Technological Change and Redistribution in Advanced Democracies 134
13. 8. The Crisis of the Liberal International Order: Technological Change and the Rise of the Right 156
14. Part III. The Global South: Challenges and Opportunities
15. 9. Advanced Manufacturing and China’s Future for Jobs 181
16. 10. Light Manufacturing Can Create Good Jobs in Sub-Saharan Africa 207
17. 11. Why and How to Build Universal Social Policy in the South 230
18. Notes 251
19. References 257
20. List of Contributors 281
21. Index 283