The Post-Work Economy

About this book

What happens when factories go dark not because they have failed, but because machines no longer need the lights? Mohamed Shehata Hussein examines artificial intelligence and advanced automation as forces capable of restructuring work, identity, and economic life. Moving from feudalism and organized labor to digital platforms, behavioral data, algorithms, and quantum computing, the book considers both mass unemployment and the promise of creative abundance supported by universal basic income. The Post-Work Economy asks whether technology will expand human freedom or deepen digital isolation—and who we become if work no longer defines us.