Re: FW A US Futurework website (fwd)

[Brad McCormick, Ed.D.]

Cordell, Arthur: DPP wrote:
> 
> Just getting around to this site.  Imitation is the sincerest form of
> flattery so I guess we should be happy that the US govt with all its
> resources has adopted futurework as the title for its web site dealing with
> work in the new economy.
> 
> arthur cordell
>  ----------
> From: S. Lerner
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED];
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: FW A US Futurework website (fwd)
> Date: Monday, September 20, 1999 6:15AM
> 
> Check this one out...
> 
> Futurework - Trends and Challenges for Work in the 21st Century_
> 
> http://www.dol.gov/dol/asp/public/futurework/report.htm
> 
> Published by the US Department of Labor (DOL), this report explores
> the social impact of the new economy and the role of the
> "twenty-first century work-place" in America.
[snip]

I just gave this site a brief glance, but here's my hypothesis
about it: It's another part of the downsizing of expectation for 
the American people.

My guess is that the fine report which Eliot Richardson
did for HEW in the Nixon Administtation: _Work in America_
(MIT Press) is far superior to this.  How many know the
Richardson report?  Raise your hands!  I don't think I see
many.

The Richardson Report, as one of its main themes, had
the issue of making people's work: *MEANINGFUL*.

Maybe this report should be titled (borrowing a 
phrase from Hannah Arendt's _The Hunam Condition_):

     The future of *animal laborans* in America.

Certainly I doubt it has anything to do with what
Nietzsche's Zarathustra said:

     Happiness? What need have I for happiness?
     I have my *work*.

Another installment in the interminable story of
"The Sorrow and The Pity"

Show me I'm wrong....

\brad mccormick

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