"A Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam book."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 330-336) and index

The end of work -- Trickle-down technology and market realities -- Visions of techno-paradise -- Crossing into the high-tech frontier -- Technology and the African-American experience -- The great automation debate -- Post-fordism -- No more farmers -- Hanging up the blue collar -- The last service worker -- High-tech winners and losers -- Requiem for the working class -- The fate of nations -- A more dangerous world -- Re-engineering the work week -- A new social contract -- Empowering the third sector -- Globalizing the social economy

Rifkin argues that we are entering a new phase in history characterized by the steady and inevitable decline of jobs, as sophisticated computers, robotics, telecommunications, and other cutting-edge technologies replace human beings in virtually every sector and industry -- from manufacturing, retail, and financial services, to transportation, agriculture, and government. He suggests that it is time to prepare ourselves and our institutions for a world that is phasing out mass employment in the production and marketing of goods and services. We will need to find alternatives to formal work and new ways of providing income and purchasing power in this post-market era

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