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>FUTUREWORK: Redesigning Work, Income Distribution, Education
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>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.
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>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.
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>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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