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BL
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| Record Number
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588253
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b417472
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| Main Entry
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Rifkin, Jeremy.
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| Title & Author
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The end of work : : the decline of the global labor force and the dawn of the post-market era /\ Jeremy Rifkin ; [foreword by Robert L. Heilbroner]
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| Edition Statement
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First trade paperback edition.
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xviii, 350 pages ;; 23 cm
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| ISBN
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0874778247 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
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| Notes
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"A Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam book."
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"Technology, jobs and your future"--Cover
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Includes index
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Bibliography: p. 330-336
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| Contents
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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
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| Subject
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Technological unemployment.
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