An analysis of the potentially catastrophic implications of the growing worldwide unemployment crisis explains how we can avoid economic collapse, create conditions for a new more humane social order, and redefine the role of the individual in the new technological society. Original. 30,000 first printing.

Product Description: This book presents a bold, new invention - the Computerized Job Market (CJM) - that could, in the future, come to replace the labor market as we and our forebears have known it since the industrial revolution. James Cooke Brown, who also invented the popular board game Careers, first introduced CJM's in his science fiction book The Troika Incident...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The task faced by modern labour market analysts is a complex one. Alternative working arrangements are collectively referred to as `non-standard employment' even though they lack a common set of characteristics in terms of participants, occupations and skill levels...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

An exploration of the evolving workplace comments on distributed work, network commuting, technological advances, the impact of technology on communities, and successful examples of organizational change. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Employment has been adopted as a leading concern for the United Nations World Social Summit in March 1995. This important study, prepared for the Summit by the World Institute for Development Economics Research, comprises a wide-ranging set of investigations of the rapidly changing situation in the North, the new market economies of Eastern Europe and the increasingly heterogeneous economies of the South...read more

Product Description: Volume 2 contains case studies.Employment has been adopted as a leading concern for the United Nations World Social Summit in March 1995. This important study, prepared for the Summit by the World Institute for Development Economics Research, comprises a wide-ranging set of investigations of the rapidly changing situation in the North, the new market economies of Eastern Europe and the increasingly heterogeneous economies of the South...read more

Product Description: Volume 2 contains case studies.Employment has been adopted as a leading concern for the United Nations World Social Summit in March 1995. This important study, prepared for the Summit by the World Institute for Development Economics Research, comprises a wide-ranging set of investigations of the rapidly changing situation in the North, the new market economies of Eastern Europe and the increasingly heterogeneous economies of the South...read more

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Describes what work will be like in the future, suggests how perceptions of work will change, and discusses the relationship between labor, money, and government