Judging by the record number of people who’ve quit their jobs in the pandemic -– the so-called Great Resignation -– millions of Americans don’t really like their work.

Which doesn’t mean they’re not worried about losing out to robots — there’s an undercurrent of fear that automation is poised to displace human labor anyway. And the pandemic has triggered or heightened a whole range of other anxieties about working life, from job quality, security and mobility to the strength of social safety nets. 

In a new book titled “The Work of the Future: Building Better Jobs in an Age of Intelligent Machines,” a team of Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers published the results of a four-year project that examined these questions and plenty more. 

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