Work and imaginaries of collaboration between humans and machines

Anette Hallin (), Christoffer Andersson (), Lucia Crevani (), Caroline Ingvarsson (), Chris Ivory (), Inti Lammi (), Eva Lindell () and Anna Uhlin ()

Chapter 3 in Creating the Future of Work, 2025, pp 38-64 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Chapter 3 explores the imaginary of work as a collaboration between humans and machines. These are seductive imaginaries, closely tied to the development of smart robots and AI, and building on the idea of work as physically or emotionally draining for humans, and humans being biased, hence not performing work in the best way possible. In the chapter, we show how these imaginaries, however, construct an unevenness in the collaboration between humans and machines – in the machines’ favor – and how human agency over their work can begin to diminish. The chapter also questions the idea that humans are homogenous in desiring certain types of work and avoiding others.

Keywords: Collaboration; Smart robots; AI; Efficiency; Hyper-taylorism; Value (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035324477
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