"The End Of Work" ( Jeremy Rifkin )

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The theme of Jeremy Rifkin's The End of Work is that global culture is entering a new phase: one where fewer and fewer workers are needed to produce the goods and services for the global population (p. xvii). He maintains the world is entering a new age of global markets and automated production (p. 292). His analysis examines the technological innovations and market-directed forces he argues are moving us into a "near workerless world" and he explores this technological revolution in an attempt to address the problems he believes will accompany the transition (p. xvii).

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"Jeremy Rifkin's "The End of Work"

The theme of Jeremy Rifkin's The End of Work is that global culture is entering a new phase: one where fewer and fewer workers are needed to produce the goods and services for the global population (p. xvii). He maintains the world is entering a new age of global markets and automated production (p. 292). His analysis examines the technological innovations and market-directed forces he argues are moving us into a "near workerless world" and he explores this technological revolution in an attempt to address the problems he believes will accompany the transition (p. xvii).

Rifkin concludes it is still within our power to harness this revolution in a direction beneficial to a majority of American workers. Many analysts have covered the material he covers in this ..."

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