The End of Work: The Decline of the Global Work-force and the Dawn of the Post-market Era
- ISBN-10
- 0140295585
- ISBN-13
- 9780140295580
- Series
- The End of Work
- Category
- Labor supply
- Pages
- 350
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2000
- Author
- Jeremy Rifkin
Description
Global unemployment has now reached its highest level since the great depression of the 1930s. Technologies which have brought miraculous improvements in efficiency and productivity have also slashed the numbers employed in manufacturing and agriculture, while the service sector is quite unable to take up the slack. While a tiny elite of knowledge workers -scientists, entrepreneurs an consultants - will still be in demand, most jobs are disappearing fast, resulting in the creation of a morose underclass, caught between apathy and criminal violence.
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- 2014-12-10
- 140 pages
- Paperback
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- 2004
- 352 pages
- Paperback
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