15 must-read economics books like Automation and the Future of Work by Aaron Benanav

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Automation and the Future of Work

By: Aaron Benanav

3.89

Format: 166 pages, Kindle Edition

Silicon Valley titans, politicians, techno-futurists and social critics have united in arguing that…

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1. The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class

By: Guy Standing

3.91

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Neo-liberal policies and institutional changes have produced a huge and growing number of people wi… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • sociology
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2. Das Kapital

By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky

4.22

Format: None pages, Paperback

Das Kapital, Karl Marx's seminal work, is the book that above all others formed the twentieth centu… read more

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  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • economics
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3. Left-Wing Communism, an Infantile Disorder: A Popular Essay in Marxian Strategy and Tactics

By: Vladimir Lenin

3.26

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

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  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction

4. On Anarchism

By: Noam Chomsky , Barry Pateman

4.42

Format: 718 pages, Paperback

We all know what Noam Chomsky is against. His scathing analysis of everything that's wrong with our… read more

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  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • economics

5. Historical Capitalism with Capitalist Civilization

By: Immanuel Wallerstein

4.20

Format: None pages, Paperback

In this short, highly readable book Immanuel Wallerstein provides a condensation of the central ide… read more

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6. Love's Work: A Reckoning with Life

By: Gillian Rose

4.16

Format: 293 pages, Paperback

A devastating confrontation with mortality leads Gillian Rose, one of England's most distinguished … read more

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7. The Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View

By: Ellen Meiksins Wood

3.44

Format: 406 pages, Paperback

Capitalism is not a natural and inevitable consequence of human nature, nor is it simply an extensi… read more

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8. Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

By: David Graeber

4.03

Format: 335 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling writer David Graeber, a powerful argument against the rise of meaningless, unfulfi… read more

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  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • sociology
  • business
"Economies around the world have, increasingly, become vast engines for producing nonsense."

-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

"Bullshit jobs regularly induce feelings of hopelessness, depression, and self-loathing. They are forms of spiritual violence directed at the essence of what it means to be a human being."

-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

"What we are witnessing is the rise of those forms of popular culture that office workers can produce and consume during the scattered, furtive shards of time they have at their disposal in workplaces…"

-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

"A fact-finding commission is a way of telling the public that the government is doing something it is not. But a large corporations will behave exactly the same way, if, say, there are revealed to be…"

-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

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9. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power

By: Shoshana Zuboff

4.06

Format: 691 pages, Hardcover

The challenges to humanity posed by the digital future, the first detailed examination of the unpre… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • sociology
  • business
  • technology
"This is the existential contradiction of the second modernity that defines our conditions of existence: we want to exercise control over our own lives, but everywhere that control is thwarted. Indivi…"

-Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power

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10. Cannibal Capitalism: How our System is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet—and What We Can Do About It

By: Nancy Fraser

4.04

Format: 209 pages, Kindle Edition

A trenchant look at contemporary capitalism’s insatiable appetite—and a rallying cry for everyone w… read more

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  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • economics
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11. How to Blow Up a Pipeline

By: Andreas Malm

3.96

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

The science on climate change has been clear for a very long time now. Yet despite decades of appea… read more

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  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"The context for hope is radical uncertainty; anything could happen, and whether we act or not has everything to do with it."

-Andreas Malm, How to Blow Up a Pipeline

"I once asked Bill McKibben, after an energising speech to a capacity crowd, when – given that the situation is as urgent as he portrayed it and we all know it is – we escalate. He was visibly ill at …"

-Andreas Malm, How to Blow Up a Pipeline

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12. The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation

By: Cory Doctorow

4.17

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

A detailed disassembly manual for people who want to dismantle Big Tech When the tech platforms … read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • sociology
  • business
  • technology
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13. Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)

By: Dean Spade

4.38

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

Mutual aid is the radical act of caring for each other while working to change the world. Around… read more

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  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
"In the context of professionalized nonprofit organizations, groups are urged to be single-issue oriented, framing their message around "deserving" people within the population they serve, and using t…"

-Dean Spade, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)

"When we feel bad, we often automatically decide that either we are bad or another person is bad. Both of these moves cause damage and distort the truth, which is that we are all navigating difficult …"

-Dean Spade, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)

"Burnout is the combination of resentment, exhaustion, shame, and frustration that make us lose connection to pleasure and passion in the work, and instead encounter difficult feelings like avoidance,…"

-Dean Spade, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)

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14. Mute Compulsion. A Theory of the Economic Power of Capital

By: Søren Mau

4.40

Format: None pages, ebook

[From Author's Summary] Despite a decade of crisis and social unrest, capitalism is in many ways … read more

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  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • economics
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15. Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World

By: Jason Hickel

4.51

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

The world has finally awoken to the reality of climate breakdown and ecological collapse. Now we mu… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • economics
"Individuality is an illusion. Life on this planet is an interwoven mesh of relational becoming."

-Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World

"We will find ourselves plunging into ecological collapse well before we run into the limits to growth."

-Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World

"It is politically easier to rev up GDP and hope some of it trickles down to the poor than it is to distribute existing income more fairly."

-Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World

"Atmospheric carbon concentration should not breach 350ppm if the climate is to remain stable (we crossed that boundary in 1990, and hit 415ppm in 2020)."

-Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World

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16. Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy

By: Quinn Slobodian

4.10

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In a revelatory dispatch from the frontier of capitalist extremism, an acclaimed historian of ideas… read more

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  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • sociology
  • business
  • technology
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17. Fully Automated Luxury Communism: A Manifesto

By: Aaron Bastani

3.70

Format: 278 pages, Hardcover

A different kind of politics for a new kind of society--beyond work, scarcity and capitalism In … read more

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  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • sociology
  • technology
"We have a world to win"

-Aaron Bastani, Fully Automated Luxury Communism: A Manifesto

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18. Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism

By: Kōhei Saitō

3.98

Format: 300 pages, ebook

Facing global climate crisis, Karl Marx's ecological critique of capitalism more clearly demonstrat… read more

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  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • economics
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19. Breaking Things at Work: The Luddites Are Right About Why You Hate Your Job

By: Gavin Mueller

3.97

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

In the nineteenth century, English textile workers responded to the introduction of new technologie… read more

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  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • labor
  • economics
  • sociology
  • technology
"Free software is an example of a Luddite technology: an innovation in the interest of the preservation of practitioners' autonomy against the imposition of control over the labor process by capitalis…"

-Gavin Mueller, Breaking Things at Work: The Luddites Are Right About Why You Hate Your Job

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20. Automation and the Future of Work

By: Aaron Benanav

3.89

Format: 166 pages, Kindle Edition

Silicon Valley titans, politicians, techno-futurists and social critics have united in arguing that… read more

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  • labor
  • economics
  • sociology
  • business
  • technology
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21. Smart Machines and Service Work: Automation in an Age of Stagnation (Field Notes)

By: Jason E. Smith

4.05

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

In recent decades digital devices have reshaped daily life, while tech companies’ stock prices have… read more

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4.22

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Vladimir Lenin

3.26

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4.42

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4.06

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Ashley Shew

4.30

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Marc Lamont Hill

4.21

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Kit Heyam

4.30

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Rashid Khalidi

4.50

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