Research Catalog

Title

Work for all or mass unemployment? : computerised technical change into the twenty-first century / Chris Freeman and Luc Soete.

Author

Freeman, Christopher.

Publication

London ; New York : Pinter Publishers ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press, 1994.

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Additional Authors

Soete, Luc.

Description

vi, 193 pages : illustrations; 22 cm

Subjects

• Technological unemployment > Forecasting
• Employment forecasting
• Twenty-first century > Forecasts
• Labor supply > Effect of technological innovations on > Forecasting

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-188) and index.

Contents

1. 'Disturbing Perhaps Alarming': why mass unemployment is not just economically wasteful but also socially disastrous -- 2. 'Ricardo's Surprise': economic theory and why the fears of technical change on the part of the 'labouring class' conform to the correct principles of political economy -- 3. 'The Biggest Technological Juggernaut That Ever Rolled': Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and its employment effects -- 4. 'Get Smarter or Get Poorer': The international dimension of technical change and employment in the world economy -- 5. 'A Man's Place is in the Home': various forms of flexibility -- 6. Sustainable Development and Limits to Growth: the end of the love affair with the automobile -- 7. Policies for Future Employment: In the long run we are not all dead.

ISBN

• 1855672553 (hc.)
• 1855672561 (pbk.)

LCCN

94013742

OCLC

ocm30318527

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries