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

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

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