| Description |
xlviii, 252 pages cm |
| Contents |
Foreword / Robert L. Heilbroner -- Pt. I. The two faces of technology -- 1. The end of work -- 2. Trickle-down technology and market realities -- 3. Visions of techno-paradise -- Pt. II. The third industrial revolution -- 4. Crossing into the high-tech frontier -- 5. Technology and the African-American experience -- 6. The great automation debate -- 7. Post-Fordism -- Pt. III. The decline of the global labor fore -- 8. No more farmers -- 9. Hanging up the blue collar -- 10. The last service worker -- Pt. IV. The price of progress -- 11. High-tech winners and losers -- 12. Requiem for the working class -- 13. The fate of nations -- 14. A more dangerous world -- Pt. V. The dawn of the post-market era -- 15. Re-engineering the work week -- 16. A new social contract -- 17. Empowering the third sector -- 18. Globalizing the social economy |
| Notes |
Originally published: New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, c1995. With a new introduction by the author |
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"Updated for the 21st century"--Cover |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 296-338) and index |
| Subject |
Technological unemployment.
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Labor productivity.
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Work -- Forecasting.
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| LC no. |
2003068708 |
| ISBN |
1585423130 |
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