The end of work : the decline of the global labor force and the dawn of the post-market era
/ Jeremy Rifkin
- First trade paperback edition
- xviii, 350 pages
Includes bibliographical references (pages 330-336) and index.
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