The End of Work

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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 transformation and a rebirth of the human spirit.

subjects: Technological unemployment,  Forecasting,  Work,  Labor productivity,  Unemployment,  Chômage technologique,  Automatisation,  Travail,  Technische ontwikkeling,  Société postindustrielle,  Économie sociale,  Évolution,  Werkgelegenheid,  Économie sociale et solidaire,  Marché du travail, Effets des innovations sur le,  Économie du travail,  Société post-industrielle,  Chômage structurel,  Marché du travail,  Labor supply,  Effect of automation on,  Labor economics,  Economics,  Sociological aspects,  Travail, Marché du, Effets de l'automatisation sur le,  Effets des innovations,  Réduction du temps de travail,  Employees, effect of technological innovations on,  Retirement,  Work, psychological aspects