Future
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Preface - ii
Introduction
- ix
PART
1: WHAT COMES AFTER THE EMPLOYMENT AGE? - 1
Chapter
1. Possible Futures for Work - 3
A
Post-Industrial Age - Two
Visions of Post-Industrial Society - Three
Futures for Work - Three
Possible Futures
Chapter
2. A Realistic Assessment - 17
The
Four-Sector Economy - Restoring
Full Employment - A Realistic Goal? - Leisure
in Place of Work - A Realistic Goal? - The
Significance of Ownwork
Chapter
3. The Age of Employment - 28
Pre-Industrial
Patterns of Work - The
Situation Now - Employment
as Dependency - Masculine,
Impersonal Work - Exclusive
Nature of Employment - Dependency
of Local Communities - Limits
to Employment
Chapter
4. A Change of Direction - 39
Energy
- Technology - Environment
- Leisure
- Education
and Training - Incomes
-Capital,
Investment, Land
PART
2: CHANGING PERCEPTIONS OF WORK - 53
Chapter
5. The Work Ethic Evolves - 55
The
Protestant Reformation - Attitudes
to Time and Money - A
Work Ethic for All - Change
as Liberation and Progress - Work
Ethic or Leisure Ethic? - A
New Work Ethic
Chapter
6. Changing Worldview, Changing Values - 71
The
Industrial-Age Outlook - A
Post-Industrial Worldview - Shifting
Values - Masculine
and Feminine - Men's
Work and Women's Work - Equal
Opportunities - The
Feminisation of Work
Chapter
7. The Valuation of Work - 89
The
Theory of the Just Price - The
Labour Theory of Value - The
Neo-Classical Economists - The
Supremacy of Quantitative Values - The
Failure of Quantitative Valuation - Pointers
for the Future 105
PART
3: THE END OF THE EMPLOYMENT EMPIRE - 107
Chapter
8. Labour - 109
Defensive
Posture - The
Lucas Initiative - Work
Rights and Responsibilities - Depersonalisation
- Transformation
of the Working Class
Chapter
9. Money - 126
Money
Now Dominant - Possibilities
for the Future - Money
and Ownwork - Positive
and Negative Effects - A
'Dissolution of the Monasteries'?
Chapter
10. Politics and Government - 137
Political
Alignments during the Industrial Age - Possible
Futures for Politics and Government - A
Scenario - Collapse
or Decolonisation
PART
4: PRACTICALITIES OF THE TRANSITION - 147
Chapter
11. The Shift to Ownwork Has Already Begun
- 149
Personal
Ownwork - Local
Ownwork - Business
and Industry - Local
Government - Central
Government and International Government
Agencies - Other
Institutions
Chapter
12. The Ownwork Agenda - 165
Personal
Incomes - Access
to Workspace,Land and Capital - Local
Economic Development - Technology
- Education,
Training,Leisure - Economics,
Social Sciences, Management Sciences - Key
Institutions
Conclusion
- 189
Appendix
1. A Note on Paradigm Shifts
Appendix
2. An Ownwork Checklist
Notes
and References
Publications
Index
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Subject
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