You might check out Ghost Work By Mary L. Gray, Siddharth Suri https://shepherd.com/book/ghost-work https://shepherd.com/book/ghost-work "Hidden beneath the s

You might check out Ghost Work By Mary L. Gray, Siddharth Suri https://shepherd.com/book/ghost-work https://shepherd.com/book/ghost-work "Hidden beneath the surface of the web, lost in our wrong-headed debates about AI, a new menace is looming. Anthropologist Mary L. Gray and computer scientist Siddharth Suri team up to unveil how services delivered by companies like Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Uber can only function smoothly thanks to the judgment and experience of a vast, invisible human labor force. These people doing "ghost work" make the internet seem smart. They perform high-tech piecework: flagging X-rated content, proofreading, designing engine parts, and much more. An estimated 8 percent of Americans have worked at least once in this “ghost economy,” and that number is growing. They usually earn less than legal minimums for traditional work, they have no health benefits, and they can be fired at any time for any reason, or none." This is a bit recent though, but still helpful for a modern big picture perspective. Rise of the Robots By Martin Ford https://shepherd.com/book/rise-of-the-robots https://shepherd.com/book/rise-of-the-robots This one I haven't read yet, but I've heard it tries to look historically as it looks at this concept. And then of course, you have the historic luddites :) Rebels Against the Future By Kirkpatrick Sale Book cover of Rebels Against the Future: The Luddites and Their War on the Industrial Revolution: Lessons for the Computer Age https://shepherd.com/book/rebels-against-the-future https://shepherd.com/book/rebels-against-the-future