Future Work - Contents
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2006 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
Name Index
Subject Index