The jobless future
Subtitle: sci-tech and the dogma of work
By: Stanley Aronowitz and William DiFazio.
Contributors: DiFazio, William.
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 392
Subjects: Technological unemployment -- United States.; Labor supply -- Effect of technological innovations on -- United States.
Description: The Jobless Future challenges beliefs in the utopian promise of a knowledge-based, high-technology economy. Reviewing a vast body of encouraging literature about the postindustrial age, Aronowitz and DiFazio conclude that neither theory, history, nor contemporary evidence warrants optimism about a technological economic order. Instead, they demonstrate the shift toward a massive displacement of employees at all levels and a large-scale degradation of the labor force.

As they clearly chart a major change in the nature, scope, and amount of paid work, the authors suggest that notions of justice and the good life based on full employment must change radically as well. They close by proposing alternatives to our dying job culture that might help us sustain ourselves and our well-being in a science- and technology-based economic future. One alternative discussed is reducing the workday to fewer hours without reducing pay.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.