The jobless future
By: Stanley Aronowitz and William DiFazio
Contributors: DiFazio, William
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press; Univ Of Minnesota Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Minneapolis, MN
Language: eng
Number of pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9780816674510
Description: Charting a major change in the nature of paid work in the United States. This widely reviewed and highly successful book examines the job market of tomorrow. Aronowitz and DiFazio take you behind the headlines to challenge the idea that a high-tech economy will provide high-paying jobs for all who want them. Instead, they demonstrate that we're more likely to see continued layoffs and job displacement.--Publisher website.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Technoscience and joblessness; title: The new knowledge work; title: Technoculture and the future of work; title: The end of skill?; title: The computerized engineer and architect; title: The professionalized scientist; title: Contours of a new world; title: Contradictions of the knowledge class : power, proletarianization, and intellectuals; title: Unions and the future of professional work; title: A taxonomy of teacher work; title: Beyond the catastrophe; title: The cultural construction of class : knowledge and the labor process; title: Quantum measures: capital investment and job reduction; title: The jobless future?; title: Afterword : going beyond the current crisis.