In case you were puzzled by uncharacteristic lack of FW discourse between
Dec. 28 and Jan 6...so were we! The server at U. of Waterloo was down for
upgrading, and no one had passed that news along to Sally. But we're up
and running again as of yesterday - Jan 7th. Perhaps a little breathing
time over the holiday wasn't totally unwelcome. Sally and Arthur
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*FUTUREWORK: Redesigning Work, Income Distribution, Education*
FUTUREWORK is an international e-mail forum for discussion of how to
deal with the new realities created by economic globalization and
technological change. Basic changes are occurring in the nature of work in
all industrialized countries. Information technology has hastened the
advent of the global economic village. Jobs that workers at all skill
levels in developed countries once held are now filled by smart machines
and/or in low-wage countries. Contemporary rhetoric proclaims the need for
ever-escalating competition, leaner and meaner ways of doing
business, a totally *flexible* workforce, jobless growth.
What would a large permanent reduction in the number of secure,
adequately-waged jobs mean for communities, families and individuals? This
is not being adequately discussed, nor are the implications for income
distribution and education. Even less adequately addressed are questions of
how to take back control of these events, how to turn technological change
into the opportunity for a richer life rather thanthe recipe for a
bladerunner society.
Our objective in creating this list is to involve as many people as
possible in redesigning for the new realities. We hope that this list will
help to move these issues to a prominent place on public and
political agendas worldwide.
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and civil, intelligent and provocative. It also serves as a bulletin-board
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lists and websites, conferences, even job openings relevant to the future
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