{"title":"Sarah O'Connor","description":"\u003cp\u003eSarah O'Connor's works delve into the evolving world of \u003cstrong\u003ebusiness and entrepreneurship\u003c\/strong\u003e, offering insightful perspectives on how people and systems intersect in modern workplaces. Her writing challenges conventional views, encouraging readers to rethink the human element behind economic activity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith titles like \u003cem\u003eWe Are Not Machines\u003c\/em\u003e, O'Connor explores the balance between technology, labour, and social change, making her books essential for those interested in the future of work and the dynamics shaping today's economic landscape.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"we-are-not-machines-by-sarah-oconnor-9780241704226","title":"We Are Not Machines","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom award-winning \u003cem\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/em\u003e journalist Sarah O'Connor, a deeply reported investigation into how AI and robotics are transforming the way we work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA tsunami of change, we are told, is sweeping the economy as robots and AI threaten to take over tasks done by humans. But while we worry that we're robotising our work, what if the real risk is that we're robotising ourselves?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhen prize-winning \u003cem\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/em\u003e journalist Sarah O'Connor set out to investigate what was happening on the front lines of technological change, she found people who weren't losing their jobs to machines, but who felt they were losing something else instead. From translators forced to edit AI output to university graduates interviewed by software and warehouse workers surrounded by robots, she heard stories of work becoming lonelier, less creative, less human.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBut O'Connor also found hopeful stories of jobs being made better, safer, and more enjoyable—where workers haven't rejected the new tools, but instead have learned to control them. Exploring questions of power, design, institutions and ideas, her reporting shows that the way technology changes the world of work is not pre-determined, but must be contested and shaped by all of us.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eInspired by stories from nineteenth-century English cotton mills to twenty-first century Swedish mines, \u003cem\u003eWe Are Not Machines\u003c\/em\u003e reveals how we can fight for work which is more respectful of our limits, and more worthy of our minds.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47754227220716,"sku":"9780241704226","price":55.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780241704226-we-are-not-machines.jpg?v=1781660274"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/sarah-oconnor.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}