The Jobless Future
University of Minnesota Press
Published on 1. October 1994
Book
Hardback
416 pages
978-0-8166-2193-4 (ISBN)
Description
"The Jobless Future" challenges the beliefs about the utopian promise of a knowledge-based, high technology economy. Reviewing a vast body of encouraging literature about the post-industrial age, Aronowitz and DiFazio conclude that neither theory, history, nor contemporary evidence warrants optimism about a technological economic order. Instead, they demonstrate, the shift toward a massive displacement of employees at all levels and a large-scale degradation of the labour force. As they clearly chart a major change in the nature, scope, and amount of paid work, the authors suggest that notions of justice and the good life based on full employment must change radically as well. They close by proposing alternatives to our dying job culture that might help us sustain ourselves and maintain our well-being in a science-based, technological economic future. One alternative discussed is reducing the work day so that fewer hours are worked with pay remaining constant.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Minnesota
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
740 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8166-2193-4 (9780816621934)
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Content
The new knowledge work; techno-culture and the future of work; the end of skill?; the computerized engineer and architect; the professionalized scientist; contradictions of the knowledge class - power, proletarianization, and intellectuals; unions and the future of professional work; a taxonomy of teacher work; the cultural construction of class - knowledge and the labour process; quantum measures - capital investment and job reduction; the jobless future?