A different perspective on ecofeminist issues.....
New FUTUREWORK List December 19, 1994
FUTUREWORK: RE-DESIGNING WORK,INCOME DISTRIBUTION,EDUCATION
This is the launch of a new listserv, FUTUREWORK, 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 skills 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 than the recipe for a
bladerunner society.
Our objective in creating this listserv is to involve as many people as
possible in re-designing 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.
The FUTUREWORK listserv is hosted by Communications for a Sustainable
Future (CSF) located at the University of Colorado at Boulder. As the
coordinator of FUTUREWORK, I invite you become part of our effort.
FUTUREWORK is an unmoderated and open list, so all messages posted to the
list will be redistributed around the world.
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Together with others who are interested in addressing the new realities,
I look foward to meeting you on the FUTUREWORK list.
Sally Lerner
University of Waterloo
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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