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End Of Work: The Decline Of The Global Labor Force And The Dawn Of The Post-Market Era
Author: Rifkin, Jeremy; Introduction: Heilbroner, Robert L.
Hardback; Book 361 pages Published: December 1995 Little, Brown & Company
ISBN: 0874777798 This item non-returnable. Order may not be canceled.
Global unemployment is now at the highest level since the Depression. In this provocative book, Rifkin illustrates that the soaring productivity advances made possible by new technologies are bringing the world economy close to cataclysm. He argues, however, that there is still time to avoid economic collapse, and offers challenging solutions for the public and private sectors.Theorizes that computers will eliminate the need for a workforce and proposes ways to avoid this mass unemployment.

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