The Jobless Future
Second Edition
Published on 16. September 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
432 pages
978-0-8166-7451-0 (ISBN)
Description
High technology will destroy more jobs than it creates. This grim prediction was first published in the 1994 edition of The Jobless Future, an eerily accurate title that could have been written for today's dismal economic climate. Fully updated and with a new introduction by Stanley Aronowitz and William DiFazio, The Jobless Future warns that jobs as we know them-long-term, with benefits-are an endangered species.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Minnesota
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 26 mm
Weight
722 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8166-7451-0 (9780816674510)
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Persons
Stanley Aronowitz is distinguished professor of sociology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is the author of numerous books, including Paradigm Lost (Minnesota, 2002).
William DiFazio is professor and chair of the sociology department at St. John's University, New York. He is the author of Ordinary Poverty.
William DiFazio is professor and chair of the sociology department at St. John's University, New York. He is the author of Ordinary Poverty.
Content
Contents
Facing the Economic Crisis of the Twenty-First Century: A New Introduction to The Jobless Future
The Jobless Future
Preface
Introduction
Part I. Technoscience and Joblessness
1. The New Knowledge Work
2. Technoculture and the Future of Work
3. The End of Skill?
4. The Computerized Engineer and Architect
5. The Professionalized Scientist
Part II. Contours of a New World
6. Contradictions of the Knowledge Class: Power, Proletarianization, and Intellectuals
7. Unions and the Future of Professional Work
8. A Taxonomy of Teacher Work
Part III. Beyond the Catastrophe
9. The Cultural Construction of Class: Knowledge and the Labor Process
10. Quantum Measures: Capital Investment and Job Reduction
11. The Jobless Future?
Afterword
Notes
Index
Facing the Economic Crisis of the Twenty-First Century: A New Introduction to The Jobless Future
The Jobless Future
Preface
Introduction
Part I. Technoscience and Joblessness
1. The New Knowledge Work
2. Technoculture and the Future of Work
3. The End of Skill?
4. The Computerized Engineer and Architect
5. The Professionalized Scientist
Part II. Contours of a New World
6. Contradictions of the Knowledge Class: Power, Proletarianization, and Intellectuals
7. Unions and the Future of Professional Work
8. A Taxonomy of Teacher Work
Part III. Beyond the Catastrophe
9. The Cultural Construction of Class: Knowledge and the Labor Process
10. Quantum Measures: Capital Investment and Job Reduction
11. The Jobless Future?
Afterword
Notes
Index