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1 1. Politics as translated from the Greek to mean ‘affairs of the city’.

2 2. D. Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change, Blackwell Publishing, 1991, p. 240.

3 3. D. Goodhart, The Road to Somewhere: The New Tribes Shaping British Politics, Hurst, 2017.

4 4. In this introductory chapter, we use the terms ‘work’ and ‘labour’ interchangeably. In later chapters we separate ‘labour’, ‘work’ and ‘employment’.

5 5. I tend towards the parochial. Seamus Heaney referring to his fellow poet Patrick Kavanagh thought of parochialism as permission to ‘dwell without cultural anxiety among the usual landmarks of your life’. S. Heaney, ‘The placeless heaven’, The Massachusetts Review, Vol. 28, No. 3, 1987, pp. 371–80.

6 6. J. Bloodworth, Hired: Six Months Undercover in Low-Wage Britain, Atlantic Books, 2018.

7 7. This is not to ignore work being published in journals such as New Technology, Work & Employment and Futures of Work. These contributions are important. The argument simply acknowledges the general success of liberal economics in neutralizing what used to be described as the ‘labour question’.

8 8. No original research was carried out for the 2017 Taylor Review of modern working practices compared to the extensive programme that informed the Donovan Royal Commission in 1968 or the high-quality survey and case study research programmes overseen by the then Department of Employment until the early 2000s. The National Board for Prices and Incomes (1965–70), the Commission on Industrial Relations (1969–74), the Bullock Committee on Industrial Democracy (1975–7) and later the Low Pay Commission from 1997 all initiated substantial pieces of independent research into the world of work. See W. Brown, ‘The Donovan report as evidence-based policy’, Industrial Relations Journal, Vol. 50, No. 5–6, 2019, pp. 419–30.

9 9. P. Mishra, Age of Anger: A History of the Present, Allen Lane, 2017, p. 330.

10 10. R.S. Foa, A. Klassen, M. Slade, A. Rand and R. Collins, The Global Satisfaction with Democracy Report 2020, Centre for the Future of Democracy, 2020. The Hansard Society, Audit of Political Engagement 16, 2019.

11 11. M. Sandel, ‘Populism, Trump and the future of democracy’, Open Democracy, 9 May 2018.

12 12. Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson, The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies, W.W. Norton and Company, 2014.

13 13. M. Ford, Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of Mass Unemployment, Oneworld Publications, 2016.

14 14. Carl Frey and Mike Osborne, ‘The Future of Employment: How Susceptible Are Jobs to Computerisation?’, Oxford Martin School Working Papers, September 2013, University of Oxford.

15 15. Daniel Susskind and Richard Susskind, The Future of Professions: How Technology Will Transform the Work of Human Experts, Oxford University Press, 2015.

16 16. ‘How robots change the world: what automation really means for jobs and productivity’, Oxford Economics, June 2019.

17 17. Ian McEwan, Machines Like Me, Jonathan Cape, 2019. Similar themes have recently been played out in films such as Blade Runner 2049 and Ex Machina.

18 18. A. Huxley, Brave New World, Chatto & Windus, 1932. G. Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Secker & Warburg, 1949.

19 19. Also see E. Davies (ed.), Economic Science Fictions, Goldsmiths Press, 2018. Contributors discuss the relationship between science fiction and economic narratives, with many arguing the positive case for using science fiction to reimagine how technology overturns neo-liberalism.

20 20. See especially R. Mackay and A. Avanessian (eds), Accelerate: The Accelerationist Reader, Urbanomic, 2015. N. Srnicek and M. Williams, Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work, Verso, 2016.

21 21. D. Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory, Allen Lane, 2018.

22 22. H. Reed and S. Lansley, Universal Basic Income: An Idea Whose Time Has Come?, Compass Publications, 2016. G. Standing, Basic Income: And How We Can Make It Happen, Pelican Books, 2017.

23 23. M. Taylor, Good Work: The Taylor Review of Modern Working Practices, UK Crown Press, 2017.

24 24. In February 2018, the ONS suggested that flatlining productivity since 2008 was due to more and more people working in unproductive industries such as food and drink services rather than more productive ones and to static labour mobility.