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Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
“Deals in the generalities of working deeply, without distraction. It spends a lot of time trying to prove the value, which I didn’t think was necessary. And it seemed short on details or concrete plans. It had four principles, which were valuable, but I looked at the book more as motivation or…”
East of Eden
The Great Stewardess Rebellion: How Women Launched a Workplace Revolution at 30,000 Feet
The New Division of Labor: How Computers Are Creating the Next Job Market
Race Against The Machine
“A good overview of how technology is changing the employment landscape. Technology is eliminating jobs, and the authors present the case, along with 19 things we need to do as a society to increase innovation to make up the difference. We need to keep innovating to create new jobs to replace the…”
Rebels Against the Future: The Luddites and Their War on the Industrial Revolution: Lessons for the Computer Age: Lessons for the Computer Age
Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future
“This was on many ‘best of’ books for 2015, It’s a broad overview of the problems of automation and the potential effects on the economy and society. Beyond the standard litany of automation horror stories, Ford offers some interesting analysis, primarily in seven reasons why the answer to the…”
There Is Power in a Union: The Epic Story of Labor in America
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
“This is the story of class in America. Specifically the ‘lower’ class. In contrast to the Utopian image of Colonial America, the early years of the country were marked with extreme poverty. Before the slave trade geared up, most of the people sent to the New World were poor white people,…”