The Future of Work and Technology: Global Trends, Challenges and Policies with an Australian Perspective [Paperback]

The book examines how global technological advances shape the way we work and allocate work today and how we might do so in the future, exploring advances in robotics, artificial intelligence, green technology, and implications for workforce skills and future welfare.?

1. Introduction: Perspectives of Technology-Driven Economic and Social Change. 2. Robotics in Australia: Uses, Opportunities, and Challenges. 3. The Promise of Digitalisation and Automation. 4. Charging Ahead: Electric Vehicles as Advanced Industrial Opportunity. 5. Economic Complexity: Rebuilding Industry through Innovation. 6. Just Transitions: Just for Whom? Lessons from Australias Automotive Closure. 7. Being Safe from and with Robots: Work Health and Safety in the Age of the Intelligent Machine. 8. Workplace Relations with AI in Mind: What Is Likely to Change? 9. More than Programming? The Impact of AI on Work and Skills. 10. Reaching for Utopia: Opportunities for Redistributing Work and Leisure, Strengthening Dignity and Social Justice. 11. The Mission Ahead: How to Prepare for the Right Type of Change.

The Future of Work is a refreshingly clear-eyed take on the challenges and opportunities for Australia from new technologies. Any policy maker grappling with questions of the social and economic changes wrought from technological change would do well to keep a copy handy.

Danielle Wood, CEO, Grattan Institute

This book delivers clear opinion pieces on how our world, and in particular our work is changing and will continue to change as AI matures and penetrates all aspect of human activity. The book is highly recommended for anyone who wants to understand better how technology and society are, or should be co-evolving.

Iven Mareels, Executive Dean, Institute of Innovation, Science and SustailãÌ