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Robots and immigrants : who is stealing jobs? /

This book scrutinises the narratives created around stealing jobs, opening new debates on the role of automation and migration policies. The authors reveal how the advances in AI and demands for constant flow of immigrant workers eradicate political and working rights, propagating fears over job the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Maronitis, Kostas (Autor), Pencheva, Denny (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol, UK : Bristol University Press, 2022.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Introduction: Stealing jobs
  • 2. The re-birth of Homo Oeconomicus: self and other, immigrants and robots
  • 3. 'A necessary evil': progress through normalising inequalities and competition
  • 4. I, Robot
  • 5. The men machines: migrants as robots
  • 6. Expensive robots versus cheap migrants
  • 7. Nostalgia, futurism and the re-emergence of the common
  • References
  • Index.