Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 16:49:07 GMT
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From: "James Robertson"<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
This is a quick newsletter update to let you know that the
full text on my book 'Future Work' is now available free from
my website in pdf format.
You can find links to the 3 different sections here -
http://www.jamesrobertson.com/books.htm#futurework
The message of this book, when it was published over twenty
years ago, was that world society was in the early stage of a
'great transformation' of the kind that has occurred from time
to time in history, affecting every aspect of human life.
One of its outcomes could be a liberation of work, taking
further the earlier progressions from slavery to serfdom, and
then from serfdom to employment ó all three of which have
involved most people working for a minority superior to
themselves.
As that liberation takes place, more and more of us will work
more freely under our own control than conventional employment
has allowed. We will do what we see to be our own good, useful
and rewarding work ó for ourselves, other people and society
as a whole.
How relevant are those ideas in 2006? Have they been by-passed
by the economic orthodoxy of Thatcherism and Reaganism, by the
collapse of state-based communism and socialism, and by the
unstoppable 'progress' of globalised capitalism over the past
twenty years?
In my 2006 Preface I answer No, they haven't been by-passed.
Quite the reverse. The world situation now makes the bookís
ideas and arguments even more relevant than when it first came
out.
James Robertson
21st February 2006
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