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Artificial Intelligence and Work
Transforming Work, Organizations, and Society in an Age of Insecurity

Edited by:
  • John Bratton - Honorary Professor in the Management School at Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland
  • Laura Steele - Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland


December 2024 | 304 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
In an era marked by insecurity from neoliberalism, financial volatility, political instability, regional conflicts, pandemics, and the climate crisis, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing our work, organizations, societies, and the environment. This critical text explores who truly benefits from AI's development and deployment, offering a comprehensive overview of AI's nature, history, and applications. It delves into crucial themes such as the future of work, digitalization, neoliberalism's impact, power dynamics, ethics, inequality, gender, race, intersectional discrimination, and environmental sustainability.

Unlike practical machine learning guides, this book examines how AI and AI-based technologies are transforming work, highlighting both benefits and potential harms. Combining critical management and leadership studies with organizational sociology, it addresses societal implications, inequality, ethics, and power often overlooked by other textbooks. John Bratton's lucid and engaging writing style brings a cutting-edge subject to life, blending breadth, critical analysis, and academic rigor. Contemporary examples illustrate AI's real-life implications for organizations and work today, while thought-provoking questions encourage readers to engage with and reflect on the topics throughout.

Authored by John Bratton, an Honorary Professor at Queen’s University Belfast, and Laura Steele, a Senior Lecturer in Business and Society at Queen’s University Belfast, this interdisciplinary text is essential for students studying contemporary and emerging issues in business and management, including AI, business analytics, digitalization, and the future of work. It is also recommended for courses on the sociology of work, ethics, organization studies, management, leadership, and HRM. This book is poised to become an essential textbook for courses on AI, digitalization, and the future of work, making it a valuable resource for students and educators alike.  
 
Part 1 Historical and Global Context
John Bratton
1 Technology, Societal Change, and Artificial Intelligence
Shireen Kanji
2 The New Dark Age of Artificial Intelligence
Jamie Woodcock
3 Neoliberalism and Global Supply Chains
Claire Kilpatrick & Kieran M Conroy
4 Global AI Policies and International Business
Rachelle Pascoe Deslauriers
5 Financialization, Artificial Intelligence, and Employment
Edward Granter and Mattia Bosciano
6 The New Enigmas: AI and Platform Work
Birgit Schippers
7 Just AI? Gender, Power, and Intersectional Discrimination
 
Part 2 Key Issues
Saara Ala-Luopa, Thomas Olsson, Mohammad Hossein Jarrahi
8 Power and Artificial Intelligence
Laura Steele and Roslyn Larkin
9 Developing and Deploying Ethical AI: A Global Challenge
Laura Steele
10 Artificial Intelligence and Leadership
John Bratton
11 The Power of AI to Reshape Human Resource Management
Rea Prouska and Kabiru Oyetunde
12 Artificial Intelligence and Workers’ Voice: A Threat to Democracy?
Stuart McClure, Bahareh Ansari, Julie McCandless, and Laura Steele
13 Re-thinking Work-Life Balance in the Age of AI: Exploring the Intersections of Gender, Race, Age, and Disability
Andrew Bratton
14 AI and Organizational Sustainability in the Face of the Climate Crisis

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