The end of work
the decline of the global labor force and the dawn of the post-market era
by Jeremy Rifkin · first published 1995
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Jeremy Rifkin argues that we are entering a new phase in history - one characterized by the steady and inevitable decline of jobs. The world, says Rifkin, is fast polarizing into two potentially irreconcilable forces: on one side, an information elite that controls and manages the high-tech global economy; and on the other, the growing numbers displaced workers, who have few prospects and little hope for meaningful employment in an increasingly automated world. The end of work could mean the demise of civilization as we have come to know it, or signal the beginning of a great social transform
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> Oh, and by the way, the current worldwide depression will never end. I think this is probably true. A related book is The End of Work by Jeremy Rifkin, which I highly recommend.
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