Recommended Resources

Big Picture

Brussevich Mariya, et al. “Gender, Technology, and the Future of Work.” International Monetary Fund (IMF) Staff Discussion Notes 18/07. Washington, D.C.: IMF, October 8, 2018. https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/Staff-Discussion-Notes/Issues/2018/10/09/Gender-Technology-and-the-Future-of-Work-46236.

Frey, Carl Benedikt, and Michael A. Osborne. The Future of Employment: How Susceptible Are Jobs to Computerisation? Oxford Martin School. September 17, 2013. https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/downloads/academic/The_Future_of_Employment.pdf.

Hegewisch, Ariane, Chandra Childers, and Heidi Hartmann. Women, Automation, and the Future of Work. Washington, D.C.: Institute for Women’s Policy Research, March 13, 2019. https://iwpr.org/publications/women-automation-future-of-work/.

Kinder, Molly. “Learning to Work With Robots: AI will change everything. Workers must adapt — or else.” Foreign Policy. July 11, 2018. https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/07/11/learning-to-work-with-robots-automation-ai-labor/

Kinder, Molly, and Kristin Sharp. “The Workforce Dilemma”. Craftsmanship. Spring 2018. https://craftsmanship.net/the-workforce-dilemma/

Manyika, James, et al. A Future That Works: Automation, Employment, and Productivity. New York: McKinsey Global Institute. January 2017. https://www.mckinsey.com/~/media/mckinsey/featured%20insights/Digital%20Disruption/Harnessing%20automation%20for%20a%20future%20that%20works/MGI-A-future-that-works_Full-report.ashx.

Muro, Mark, Robert Maxim, and Jacob Whiton. Automation and Artificial Intelligence: How Machines Are Affecting People and Places. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution, January 24, 2019. https://www.brookings.edu/research/automation-and-artificial-intelligence-how-machines-affect-people-and-places/

New America and Bloomberg. “Shift: The Commission on Work, Workers, and Technology.” May 16, 2017. https://www.newamerica.org/new-america/policy-papers/shift-commission-report-findings/.

Tesfai, Lul, Kim Dancy, and Mary Alice McCarthy. Paying More and Getting Less: How Nondegree Credentials Reflect Labor Market Inequality Between Men and Women. Washington, D.C: New America, September 13, 2018. https://www.newamerica.org/education-policy/reports/paying-more-and-getting-less/.

Walmart with McKinsey & Company. America at Work A National Mosaic and Roadmap for Tomorrow. 2019. https://corporate.walmart.com/media-library/document/america-at-work-report/_proxyDocument?id=00000168-dec5-d9f9-a7f8-deed73c70001.

World Economic Forum. Towards a Reskilling Revolution: A Future of Jobs for All. Geneva, Switzerland: World Economic Forum, January 2018. http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_FOW_Reskilling_Revolution.pdf.

Books

Baldwin, Richard. The Globotics Upheaval: Globalization, Robotics, and the Future of Work. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.

Brynjolfsson, Erik, and Andrew McAfee. The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies. New York: W. W. Norton, 2014.

Ford, Martin. Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future. New York: Basic Books, 2015.

Goldin, Claudia, and Lawrence F. Katz. The Race between Education and Technology. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2008.

Hacker, Jacob S. The Great Risk Shift: The New Economic Insecurity and the Decline of the American Dream. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.

Hyman, Louis. Temp: How American Work, American Business, and the American Dream Became Temporary. New York: Viking Press, 2018.

Kaplan, Jerry. Humans Need Not Apply: A Guide to Wealth and Work in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2015.

Oppenheimer, Andres. The Robots Are Coming! The Future of Jobs in the Age of Automation. New York: Knopf Doubleday, 2019.

Shell, Ellen Ruppel. The Job: Work and Its Future in a Time of Radical Change. New York: Currency Books, 2018.

Susskind, Daniel, and Richard Susskind. The Future of the Professions: How Technology Will Transform the Work of Human Experts. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015.