TY - BOOK AU - Rifkin,Jeremy TI - The end of work: : the decline of the global labor force and the dawn of the post-market era SN - 0874778247 U1 - 331.137042 PY - 1996/// CY - New York PB - G. P. Putnam's Sons KW - Technological unemployment N1 - 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 ER -