17 FURTHER READING AND EXPLORATION
- Work, jobs, and unemployment: the foundations
- Beveridge, W. (1944), Full Employment in a Free Society
- Keynes, J. M. (1930), Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren (essay)
- Blanchard, O. and Katz, L. (1997), What We Know and Do Not Know About the Natural Rate of Unemployment (article)
Human capital, skills, and education
- Becker, G. (1964), Human Capital
- Goldin, C. and Katz, L. (2008), The Race between Education and Technology
Automation, AI, and the future of work
- Brynjolfsson, E. and McAfee, A. (2014), The Second Machine Age
- Frey, C. B. (2019), The Technology Trap
- Autor, D. (2015), Why Are There Still So Many Jobs? (article)
- Susskind, D. (2020), A World Without Work
Why we work so much: time, meaning, and “enough”
- Spencer, D. A. (2022), Making Light Work: An End to Toil in the Twenty-First Century
- Spencer, D. A. (2009), The Political Economy of Work
- Skidelsky, R. and Skidelsky, E. (2012), How Much is Enough?
- Graeber, D. (2018), Bullshit Jobs
- Crawford, M. (2009), Shop Class as Soulcraft (the dignity and meaning of skilled work)
- Bregman, R. (2017), Utopia for Realists
Inequality, precarity, and the safety net
- Standing, G. (2011), The Precariat
- Atkinson, A. (2015), Inequality: What Can Be Done?
- Standing, G. (2017), Basic Income: And How We Can Make It Happen
- Murray, C. (2006), In Our Hands (a libertarian case for a basic income)
Other angles worth hearing
- Cowen, T. (2013), Average Is Over (a market-minded view of the skills divide)
- Hazlitt, H. (1946), Economics in One Lesson (the classical case that technology need not destroy jobs)
- Chang, Ha-Joon (2007), Bad Samaritans (development and industrial policy, a non-Western voice)
Data and the global picture
- OECD, Employment Outlook (various years)
- ILO, World Employment and Social Outlook (various years)
