The End of Work
Also known as The End of Work: The Decline of the Global Labor Force and the Dawn of the Post-Market Era
Jeremy Rifkin's 1995 forecast that technology would destroy jobs on a mass scale.
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Technological unemployment, The third sector, A social wage
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George Caffentzis, Productivity paradox
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- Rifkin argued that information technology would eliminate tens of millions of jobs in manufacturing, agriculture and services.
- A small elite would gain while the American middle class shrank.
- He predicted a growing third sector of voluntary and community organisations, funded by government.
- He proposed paying for it by cutting the military budget and taxing non-essential goods, and paying a social wage instead of welfare.
Why it matters
- It is credited by some with helping shape the debate on automation and the future of jobs.
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