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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822487903321

Autore

Aronowitz Stanley

Titolo

The jobless future [[electronic resource] /] / Stanley Aronowitz and William DiFazio

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, MN, : University of Minnesota Press, c2010

ISBN

1-4529-4759-7

0-8166-7486-8

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (448 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

DiFazioWilliam

Disciplina

331.13/70420973

Soggetti

Labor supply - Effect of technological innovations on - United States

Technological unemployment - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

Charting a major change in the nature of paid work in the United States.