1995 TheEndOfWork
- (Rifkin, 1995) ⇒ Jeremy Rifkin. (1995). “The End of Work: The Decline of the Global Labor Force and the Dawn of the Post-Market Era.” In: Putnam Publishing Group. ISBN:0-87477-779-8.
Subject Headings: Mass Technological Unemployment, End of Work Hypothesis.
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2021
- (Wikipedia, 2021) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_End_of_Work Retrieved:2021-9-4.
- The End of Work: The Decline of the Global Labor Force and the Dawn of the Post-Market Era is a non-fiction book by American economist Jeremy Rifkin, published in 1995 by Putnam Publishing Group.
2014
- (Campa, 2014)
- QUOTE: Rifkin points out that people that lose a low-skilled job often lose the only job they are able to do. Many of people involved for instance in assembly or packaging can barely read and write. They are on the lowest rung of ability and learning. However, the new job that arises from the machine that ‘steals’ their job is one involving taking care of that machine, which often requires high school computer programming, if not a college degree in computer science. These are in turn qualifications requiring abilities at the higher end of the ladder. …
2011
- (Brynjolfsson & McAfee, 2011) ⇒ Erik Brynjolfsson, and Andrew McAfee. (2011-10-17). “Race Against The Machine: How the Digital Revolution is Accelerating Innovation, Driving Productivity, and Irreversibly Transforming Employment and the Economy.” Digital Frontier Press. Kindle Edition.
- QUOTE:The third explanation for America’s current job creation problems flips the stagnation argument on its head, seeing not too little recent technological progress, but instead too much. We’ll call this the “end of work” argument, after Jeremy Rifkin’s 1995 book of the same title.
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Book Overview
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.
Preface
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The Information Age has arrived. In the years ahead, new, more sophisticated software technologies are going to bring civilization ever closer to a near-workerless world. … Today, all … sectors of the economy … are experiencing technological displacement, forcing millions onto the unemployment roles. …
p.36
... it is naive to believe that large numbers of unskilled and skilled blue and white collar workers will be retrained to be physicists, computer scientists, high-level technicians, molecular biologists, business consultants, lawyers, accountants, and the like …
References
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| Author | volume | Date Value | title | type | journal | titleUrl | doi | note | year | |
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| 1995 TheEndOfWork | Jeremy Rifkin | The Decline of the Global Labor Force and the Dawn of the Post-Market Era | http://books.google.com/books?id=GjGZEVddXSYC | 1995 |