The jobless future : sci-tech and the dogma of work /

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 t...

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Main Author: Aronowitz, Stanley
Other Authors: DiFazio, William
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [1994], ©1994
Minneapolis : c1994
Minneapolis : ©1994
Minneapolis, : c1994
Minneapolis : [1994]
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Table of Contents:
  • Pt. I. Technoscience and Joblessness. 1. The New Knowledge Work. 2. Technoculture and the Future of Work. 3. The End of Skill? 4. The Computerized Engineer and Architect. 5. The Professionalized Scientist
  • Pt. II. Contours of a New World. 6. Contradictions of the Knowledge Class: Power, Proletarianization, and Intellectuals. 7. Unions and the Future of Professional Work. 8. A Taxonomy of Teacher Work
  • Pt. III. Beyond the Catastrophe. 9. The Cultural Construction of Class: Knowledge and the Labor Process. 10. Quantum Measures: Capital Investment and Job Reduction. 11. The Jobless Future?
  • pt. I. Technoscience and Joblessness. 1. The New Knowledge Work. 2. Technoculture and the Future of Work. 3. The End of Skill? 4. The Computerized Engineer and Architect. 5. The Professionalized Scientist
  • pt. II. Contours of a New World. 6. Contradictions of the Knowledge Class: Power, Proletarianization, and Intellectuals. 7. Unions and the Future of Professional Work. 8. A Taxonomy of Teacher Work
  • pt. III. Beyond the Catastrophe. 9. The Cultural Construction of Class: Knowledge and the Labor Process. 10. Quantum Measures: Capital Investment and Job Reduction. 11. The Jobless Future?
  • Pt. I Technoscience and Joblessness. 1. The New Knowledge Work. 2. Technoculture and the Future of Work. 3. The End of Skill? 4. The Computerized Engineer and Architect. 5. The Professionalized Scientist
  • Pt. II. Contours of a New World. 6. Contradictions of the Knowledge Class: Power, Proletarianization, and Intellectuals. 7. Unions and the Future of Professional Work. 8. A Taxonomy of Teacher Work
  • Pt. III. Beyond the Catastrophe. 9. The Cultural Construction of Class: Knowledge and the Labor Process. 10. Quantum Measures: Capital Investment and Job Reduction. 11. The Jobless Future?