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“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…”
“Fantastically written history of how poorly flight attendants were treated in the 60s and 70s, and how they fought back. Back then, a stewardess was a key selling point for airlines. Most travelers were male, and stewardesses were employed to indulge the male ego with an image of servitude. They…”
“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…”
“This is a history of the ‘Luddite revolution,’ when textile laborers in central English destroyed machinery that was very rapidly taking their jobs. It’s where the general term ‘luddite’ came from, meaning someone who refuses to adopt new technology. I was surprised to find out that this all took…”
“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…”
“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,…”
