Machines at Work

Machines at Work
Author: Byron Barton
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 40
Release: 1987-09-25
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0694001902

‘With the call of ‘Hey, you guys! Let’s get to work,’ women and men shoulder drills and picks, board cranes and cement mixers, and set their equipment bulldozing and steamrolling across vibrant page spreads. Barton generates the excitement of road and building construction for young sidewalk engineers.’ —BL. 1988 Fanfare Honor List (The Horn Book) Notable 1987 Children's Trade Books in Social Studies (NCSS/CBC) Outstanding Science Trade Books for Children 1987 (NSTA/CBC) 1987 Children's Books (NY Public Library)

Humans and Machines at Work

Humans and Machines at Work
Author: Phoebe V. Moore
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2017-10-06
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3319582321

This edited collection provides a series of accounts of workers’ local experiences that reflect the ubiquity of work’s digitalisation. Precarious gig economy workers ride bikes and drive taxis in China and Britain; call centre workers in India experience invasive tracking; warehouse workers discover that hidden data has been used for layoffs; and academic researchers see their labour obscured by a ‘data foam’ that does not benefit them. These cases are couched in historical accounts of identity and selfhood experiments seen in the Hawthorne experiments and the lineage of automation. This book will appeal to scholars in the Sociology of Work and Digital Labour Studies and anyone interested in learning about monitoring and surveillance, automation, the gig economy and the quantified self in the workplace.

How Machines Work

How Machines Work
Author: Nick Arnold
Publisher: Templar Books
Total Pages: 24
Release: 2011
Genre: Machinery
ISBN: 9781848772120

This is a unique interactive guide to understanding simple machines and mechanisms. Each page introduces you to a key mechanical principle that you put into practice by building one or more working models. This hands-on approach makes it easy to understand how these principles work and how they can be applied to everyday objects, such as cars, bicycles cranes and seesaws.

How Machines Work: Zoo Break!

How Machines Work: Zoo Break!
Author: David Macaulay
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015-10-27
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1465440127

Award-winning artist David Macaulay introduces readers to his hilarious new creations, Sloth and Sengi, in How Machines Work: Zoo Break! Get your cogs turning with these mega machines! This amazing, award-winning visual guide showcases the science and technology behind the most important machines ever invented. How Machines Work is a unique book full of inspiring illustrations by award-winning artist David Macaulay and packed with interactive elements, including press-out models, pop-ups, and pull-outs. Sloth and his sidekick Sengi are two furry friends on hand to guide you through the book and break down the basics. They’ll give you the lowdown on levers, pulleys, screws, inclined planes, wedges, and wheels on this intrepid adventure. You’ll find out how all different technologies work, from bicycles, cranes, and drills to diggers, hammers, and zips. Along the way, you’ll help Sloth and Sengi plot their daring escape from the zoo using only newfound scientific knowledge to make a machine designed for break outs and break aways. But will they succeed? Grab this essential guide, get your brain in gear, and get set for engineering greatness.

Machines Go to Work in the City

Machines Go to Work in the City
Author: William Low
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 13
Release: 2012-06-05
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0805090509

This book provides illustrations and fold-out pictures of machines that are used in a city.

Human Work in the Age of Smart Machines

Human Work in the Age of Smart Machines
Author: Jamie Merisotis
Publisher: Rosetta Books
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2020-10-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 194812260X

A public policy leader addresses how artificial intelligence is transforming the future of labor—and what we can do to protect the role of workers. As computer technology advances with dizzying speed, human workers face an ever-increasing threat of obsolescence. In Human Work In the Age of Smart Machines, Jamie Merisotis argues that we can—and must—rise to this challenge by preparing to work alongside smart machines doing that which only humans can: thinking critically, reasoning ethically, interacting interpersonally, and serving others with empathy. The president and CEO of Lumina Foundation, Merisotis offers a roadmap for the large-scale, radical changes we must make in order to find abundant and meaningful work for ourselves in the 21st century. His vision centers on developing our unique capabilities as humans through learning opportunities that deliver fair results and offer a broad range of credentials. By challenging long-held assumptions and expanding our concept of work, Merisotis argues that we can harness the population’s potential, encourage a deeper sense of community, and erase a centuries-long system of inequality.

Big Work Machines

Big Work Machines
Author: Patricia Relf
Publisher: Golden Books
Total Pages: 28
Release: 1997-05
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780307118974

Text and illustrations introduce the big machines such as bulldozers, cranes, cement mixers, etc. which make man's life easier.

Airplanes

Airplanes
Author: Rebecca Stromstad Glaser
Publisher: Jump!
Total Pages: 24
Release: 2012-08-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1624960146

This photo-illustrated book for early readers describes different types of airplanes and the jobs they do. Includes photo glossary and labeled diagram.

The Work of the Future

The Work of the Future
Author: David H. Autor
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 189
Release: 2022-06-21
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0262367742

Why the United States lags behind other industrialized countries in sharing the benefits of innovation with workers and how we can remedy the problem. The United States has too many low-quality, low-wage jobs. Every country has its share, but those in the United States are especially poorly paid and often without benefits. Meanwhile, overall productivity increases steadily and new technology has transformed large parts of the economy, enhancing the skills and paychecks of higher paid knowledge workers. What’s wrong with this picture? Why have so many workers benefited so little from decades of growth? The Work of the Future shows that technology is neither the problem nor the solution. We can build better jobs if we create institutions that leverage technological innovation and also support workers though long cycles of technological transformation. Building on findings from the multiyear MIT Task Force on the Work of the Future, the book argues that we must foster institutional innovations that complement technological change. Skills programs that emphasize work-based and hybrid learning (in person and online), for example, empower workers to become and remain productive in a continuously evolving workplace. Industries fueled by new technology that augments workers can supply good jobs, and federal investment in R&D can help make these industries worker-friendly. We must act to ensure that the labor market of the future offers benefits, opportunity, and a measure of economic security to all.

Smart Machines and Service Work

Smart Machines and Service Work
Author: Jason E. Smith
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Total Pages: 161
Release: 2020-12-23
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1789143187

In recent decades digital devices have reshaped daily life, while tech companies’ stock prices have thrust them to the forefront of the business world. In this rapid, global development, the promise of a new machine age has been accompanied by worries about accelerated joblessness thanks to new forms of automation. Jason E. Smith looks behind the techno-hype to lay out the realities of a period of economic slowdown and expanding debt: low growth rates and an increase of labor-intensive jobs at the bottom of the service sector. He shows how increasing inequality and poor working conditions have led to new forms of workers’ struggles. Ours is less an age of automation, Smith contends, than one in which stagnation is intertwined with class conflict.