The End of Work: The Decline of the Global Labor Force and the Dawn of the Post-Market Era
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| Title |
The End of Work: The Decline of the Global Labor Force and the Dawn of the Post-Market Era |
| Publication Type |
Book |
| Pub Year |
1994 |
| Authors |
Rifkin, J., & Heilbroner R. L.
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| Publisher |
Putnam Publishing Group
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| Keywords |
flexibility, freedom, time
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| Notes |
time"NEARLY FIFTY YEARS AGO, at the dawn of the computer revolution, the philosopher and psychologist Herbert Marcuse made a prophetic observation—one that has come to haunt our society as we ponder the transition into the Information Age: Automation threatens to render possible the reversal of the relation between free time and working time; the possibility of working time becoming marginal and free time becoming full time. The result would be a radical transvaluation of values, and a mode of existence incompatible with the traditional culture. Advanced industrial society is in permanent mobilization against this possibility." (p. 221)
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