Upper Hand: The Future of Work for the Rest of Us - Hardcover

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SHERRELL DORSEY leads The Plug, a one-of-a-kind publication covering the Black innovation economy. It’s a subscription-based digital news and insights platform reaching thousands of Black professionals, fund managers, academic researchers, and reporters focused on the new world of work and business.

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<p>As technology increases its already outsized influence on society and shapes our economic and educational opportunities, it&#8217;s becoming apparent that marginalized communities are often being left behind. And just as tech creates new lines of highly skilled work, the service-based jobs predominantly filled by Black and Brown workers are put at risk by increasing automation.</p> <p>In <i>Upper Hand:</i> The Future of Work for the Rest of Us, distinguished data journalist and speaker Sherrell Dorsey delivers an insightful exploration of how we can strategically shape the future of our lives and communities as automation and the world of tech transform the working landscape for everyone, especially for communities of color. <p>The book offers a series of guidelines, insights, and frameworks for navigating the new world of work&#8212;a world dominated by Silicon Valley-rooted technologies, inaccessible networks, and constant automation that continues to decimate jobs among communities of color. <p><i>Upper Hand</i> is a handbook to help families and community leaders carve a clear path toward the options available to help people of color survive and thrive in a rapidly changing world. The author forces us to consider which ideas and assumptionswe&#8217;re willing to abandon if it means being able to guide the people we care about towards a solution where communities of color are not left behind. <p>Perfect for managers, executives, and other leaders concerned about increasing levels of technology-driven disparity and inequality, <i>Upper Hand</i> is also an essential read for anyone with an interest in the effects of technology on society and what that means for people of color around the world.

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As technology increases its already outsized influence on society and shapes our economic and educational opportunities, it's becoming apparent that marginalized communities are often being left behind. And just as tech creates new lines of highly skilled work, the service-based jobs predominantly filled by Black and Brown workers are put at risk by increasing automation.

In Upper Hand: The Future of Work for the Rest of Us, distinguished data journalist and speaker Sherrell Dorsey delivers an insightful exploration of how we can strategically shape the future of our lives and communities as automation and the world of tech transform the working landscape for everyone, especially for communities of color.

The book offers a series of guidelines, insights, and frameworks for navigating the new world of work--a world dominated by Silicon Valley-rooted technologies, inaccessible networks, and constant automation that continues to decimate jobs among communities of color.

Upper Hand is a handbook to help families and community leaders carve a clear path toward the options available to help people of color survive and thrive in a rapidly changing world. The author forces us to consider which ideas and assumptionswe're willing to abandon if it means being able to guide the people we care about towards a solution where communities of color are not left behind.

Perfect for managers, executives, and other leaders concerned about increasing levels of technology-driven disparity and inequality, Upper Hand is also an essential read for anyone with an interest in the effects of technology on society and what that means for people of color around the world.