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, 1921-2010.

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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Details

Additional Authors

Soete, Luc.

Description

vi, 193 pages : illustrations; 22 cm

Subject

• Labor supply > Effect of technological innovations on > Forecasting
• Technological unemployment > Forecasting
• Employment forecasting
• Twenty-first century > Forecasts
• Twenty-first century
• Arbeitslosigkeit
• Technischer Fortschritt
• Prognoses
• Arbeidsmarkt
• Werkloosheid
• Technische ontwikkeling
• Marché du travail > Effets des innovations
• Politique de l'emploi
• Prévision de l'emploi
• Chômage technologique

Genre/Form

Forecasts.

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
• 9781855672550
• 1855672561
• 9781855672567

LCCN

• 94013742
• 9781855672567

OCLC

• ocm30318527
• 30318527
• SCSB-2024495

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library