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

By:

Rifkin, Jeremy [author]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1996Edition: First trade paperback editionDescription: xviii, 350 pagesContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0874778247

Subject(s):

Technological unemployment

DDC classification:

331.137042

Contents:

Part I. The two faces of technology

The end of work

Trickle-down technology and market realities

Visions of techno-paradise

Part II. The third industrial revolution

Crossing into the high-tech frontier

Technology and the African-American experience

The great automation debate

Post-Fordism

Part III. The decline of the global labor force

No more farmers

Hanging up the blue collar

The last service worker

Part IV. The price of progress

High-tech winners and losers

Requiem for the working class

The fate of nations

A more dangerous world

Part V. The dawn of the post-market era

Re-engineering the work week

A new social contract

Empowering the third sector

Globalizing the social economy

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Book	Greater Project 4 Branch Reference Section	Circulation	C 331.137042 R564e 1996 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	c. 1	Available	120403d
Book	San Isidro Galas Branch Reference Section	Circulation	C 331.137042 R564e 1996 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	c. 2	Available	126720d

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 330-336) and index.