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is that productivity would lead to the destruction of jobs; however, the book appeared when productivity growth had been in a slowdown since the early 1970s as production costs soared, while the widespread use of computers in the 1980s and early 1990s neither reduced costs nor improved productivity,
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Negri and Rifkin are major participants in the "end of work" discourse of the 1990s The formal logic of the argument appears impeccable, but are its empirical premises and theoretical presuppositions correct? I argue that they are not, for Rifkin's technological determinism does not take into
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account the dynamics of employment and technological change in the capitalist era. The "end of work" literature of the 1990s, therefore, is not only theoretically and empirically disconfirmed.
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Race Against The Machine – How the Digital Revolution is Accelerating Innovation, Driving Productivity, and Irreversibly Transforming Employment and the Economy
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have criticized Rifkin for being one of the major contributors to the "end of work" discourse and literature of the 1990s.
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The Evolution of Progress: The End of Economic Growth and the Beginning of Human Transformation
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The Way It Worked and Why It Won't: Structural Change and the Slowdown of U.S. Economic Growth
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J Bessen, ‘How Computer Automation Affects Occupations: Technology, jobs, and skills’ (2016)
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J Bessen, ‘How Computer Automation Affects Occupations: Technology, jobs, and skills’ (2016)
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The End of Work: The Decline of the Global Labor Force and the Dawn of the Post-Market Era
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The End of Work: The Decline of the Global Labor Force and the Dawn of the Post-Market Era
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The End of Work: The Decline of the Global Labor Force and the Dawn of the Post-Market Era
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The Debate Zone: Has the US passed peak productivity growth? | McKinsey & Company
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Strong growth but without absorbing large numbers of unemployed people is called a
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The End of Work or the Renaissance of Slavery? A Critique of Rifkin and Negri
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The End of Work or the Renaissance of Slavery? A Critique of Rifkin and Negri
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Jeremy Rifkin: The Foundation of Economic Trends: Books: The End of Work
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Speech to the Fourth Constitutional Convention AFL-CIO, Miami, Florida
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What's Wrong with This Picture? A critique of Jeremy Rifikin's book
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concluded that Rifkin's argument is flawed because it is based on a
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that does not take into account the dynamics of employment and
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as was expected (this phenomenon would be referred to as the
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employees. While a small elite of corporate managers and
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Jeremy Rifkin
Socio-economics
technological unemployment
Putnam Publishing Group
ISBN
1-58542-313-0
OCLC
865211968
Jeremy Rifkin
Putnam Publishing Group
worldwide unemployment
information technology
jobs
service sectors
automation
blue-collar
wholesale
knowledge workers
world economy
American middle class
workplace
stressful
market economy
public sector
third sector
decaying neighborhoods
social services
military budget
value added tax

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