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Title

The end of work : the decline of the global labor force and the dawn of the post-market era / Jeremy Rifkin.

Author

Rifkin, Jeremy.

Publication

New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, [1995], ©1995.

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Description

xviii, 350 pages; 24 cm

Summary

• Jeremy Rifkin argues that we are entering a new phase in history - one characterized by the steady and inevitable decline of jobs. The world, says Rifkin, is fast polarizing into two potentially irreconcilable forces: on one side, an information elite that controls and manages the high-tech global economy; and on the other, the growing numbers displaced workers, who have few prospects and little hope for meaningful employment in an increasingly automated world.
• The end of work could mean the demise of civilization as we have come to know it, or signal the beginning of a great social transformation and a rebirth of the human spirit.

Subject

Technological unemployment

Note

• "A Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam book."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 330-336) and index.

Contents

Foreword / Robert L. Heilbroner -- 1. The End of Work -- 2. Trickle-down Technology and Market Realities -- 3. Visions of Techno-Paradise -- 4. Crossing into the High-Tech Frontier -- 5. Technology and the African-American Experience -- 6. The Great Automation Debate -- 7. Post-Fordism -- 8. No More Farmers -- 9. Hanging Up the Blue Collar -- 10. The Last Service Worker -- 11. High-Tech Winners and Losers -- 12. Requiem for the Working Class -- 13. The Fate of Nations -- 14. A More Dangerous World -- 15. Re-engineering the Work Week -- 16. A New Social Contract -- 17. Empowering the Third Sector -- 18. Globalizing the Social Economy.

ISBN

0874777798 (acid-free paper) :

LCCN

94012394

OCLC

• 30399559
• ocm30399559

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries