The jobless future / by Stanley Aronowitz and William DiFazio.

With softcover

Notes: pp. 377-394; Index: 395-410

Technoscience and joblessness -- The new knowledge work -- Technoculture and the future of work -- The end of skill? -- The computerized engineer and architect -- The professionalized scientist -- Contours of a new world -- Contradictions of the knowledge class : power, proletarianization, and intellectuals -- Unions and the future of professional work -- A taxonomy of teacher work -- Beyond the catastrophe -- The cultural construction of class : knowledge and the labor process -- Quantum measures: capital investment and job reduction -- The jobless future? -- Afterword : going beyond the current crisis.

High technology will destroy more jobs than it creates . This grim prediction was first published in the 1994 edition of The Jobless Future, an eerily accurate title that could have been written for today's dismal economic climate. Fully updated and with a new introduction by Stanley Aronowitz and William DiFazio, The Jobless Future warns that jobs as we know them-long-term, with benefits-are an endangered species.