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Hi Mike,
Thanks for the Rifkin post. It may not be his latest on this topic, but
it is among the more positive things that I have read from him.
I would like to hear more discussion of the ideas presented.
................ dennis
[Michael Gurstein wrote..]
>the latest from Mr. Rifkin...
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>Mikeg
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>Date: Sun, 29 Mar 1998 03:42:50 +0200
>From: Pit Schultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: <nettime> Jeremy Rifkin: Creating Jobs in the Third Sector
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>The Alternative to Welfare: Creating Jobs in the Third Sector
>
>Adapted from _The End of Work: The Decline of the Global Labor
>Force and the Dawn of the Post Market Era_
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>by Jeremy Rifkin
>
>After years of wishful forecasts and false starts, the new computer and
>communications technologies are finally making their long anticipated impact
>on the workplace and the economy, throwing the world community into the grip
>of a third great Industrial Revolution. Already millions of workers have
>been permanently eliminated from the economic process, and whole job
>categories have shrunk, been restructured, or disappeared.
>
>The Information Age has arrived. In the years ahead, new, more sophisticated
>software technologies are going to bring civilization ever closer to a near
>workerless world. In the agricultural, manufacturing, and service sectors,
>machines are quickly replacing human labor and promise an economy of near
>automated production by the mid decades of the twenty first century. The
>wholesale substitution of machines for workers is going to force every
>nation to rethink the role of human beings in the social process. Redefining
>opportunities and responsibilities for millions of people in a society of
>declining mass employment is likely to be the single most pressing social
>issue of the coming century.
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>
>Social Wages
>
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