A NEW ADDRESS FOR THE FW LISTS. Let us know if you have any problems with this new address. Sally >-- > >>>>> info futurework >* ANNOUNCEMENT * > > > FUTUREWORK: RE-DESIGNING WORK,INCOME DISTRIBUTION,EDUCATION > > [Two lists: FUTUREWORK (unmoderated) and FW-L (moderated)] > > >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 than >the recipe for a bladerunner society. > >Our objective in creating this list 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 list is hosted by the Faculty of Environmental Studies at the >University of Waterloo. > >To subscribe to FUTUREWORK and/or FW-L send a message to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] saying > > subscribe futurework YourE-MailAddress or > subscribe fw-l YourE-MailAddress > >To post directly to the lists (once you are subscribed), send your >message to: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] or > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Please include 'FW' or 'FW-L'in the subject line of your message, so that >subscribers know the mail is from someone on the list. > >FUTUREWORK, the unmoderated list, is for discussion and debate. Subscribers >often use a topic/thread identifier on the subject line (e.g. 'FW downward >mobility') to focus discussion, but this is essentially an open list. > >FW-L, the moderated list, serves as a "quiet room" for working >groups--think of a small chaired meeting--as well as a bulletin-board to >post notices about recommended books, articles, other documents, other >Net sites, conferences, even job openings, etc. relevant to the future >of work and to the roles of education, community and other factors in >that future. It serves subscribers as a calmer place to post and >browse. Sally Lerner and Arthur Cordell serve as co-moderators for >FW-L. Normally, posts to this moderated list should be limited to one >screen. > >To access the archives for both lists, ftp to > Scribe.uwaterloo.ca >find research, then Futurework. > >Archives are available via the FW WWW Home Page (under >construction) at the URL/location > http://www.fes.uwaterloo.ca/Research/FW > >Together with others who are interested in addressing the new realities, >we look foward to meeting you on the FUTUREWORK and FW-L lists. > >Sally Lerner >University of Waterloo >Waterloo, Ontario, Canada >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>>>> >>>>> >
