The Jobless Future: Sci-Tech and the Dogma of Work

Aronowitz, Stanley, and William DiFazio. The Jobless Future: Sci-Tech and the Dogma of Work. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1994.

In spite of statistics showing more Americans employed than ever, SA and WD argue that "technological change and competition in the world market guarantee that increasing numbers of workers will be displaced" from decent jobs (qtd. Mattera 463). Offers original research "on the way new technology has changed the working conditions of engineers at a General Electric aircraft engine design facility and at the New York City Department of Environmental Protection"; upshot: the "proletarianization" of such "technical intellecturals" in terms of their work and conditions of employment" (Materra 463). Rev. Philip Mattera, The Nation 2 April 1995: 463-65 whom we quote. See in this Category, J. Rifkin's The End of Work; see under Fiction F. Pohl's "The Midas Plague" and K. Vonnegut's Player Piano.

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