Public Engagement

Future of Work
Article for the Times Literary Supplement on two critiques of automation discourse (June 2021)
TLS Podcast interview about the above article (June 2021)
Review of three books on the past, present and future of work for Project Syndicate (January 2020)

Technological Unemployment
Discussed in this report by the Institute for Public Policy Research (Spring 2024)
British Academy Review article (Fall 2018)

Spinning and the Industrial Revolution
Our research was featured in The Financial Times and The Economist. (Summer 2018)
We also summarized our findings in this blog post. (Spring 2019)
The Economist cited our research in this article about home working in December 2020.

PhD Research on Job Quality and Technological Change
The Race Between Productivity and Demand (May 2022)
The Opportunity and Inequality of Innovation (May 2022)
The Race Between Productivity and Good Jobs (May 2022)
What can history tell us about the future of work? (May 2022)
Earlier blog post on how work quality changed during the American Transportation Revolution (Summer 2020)

Podcasts
From 2018 to 2020 I hosted the Oxford Centre for Economic & Social History podcast series.

Profile
Short biography of the pioneering economic and textile historian Julia de Lacy Mann (February 2021).

Image: Gunpowder Mill, Hagley Museum, Wilmington, DE, USA
© Ben Schneider 2021