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Jeremy Rifkin

(http://faculty.washington.edu/krumme/readings/rifkin.html)

The Age of Access: The New Culture of Hypercapitalism Where All of Life Is a Paid-for Experience. May 2000. 320p. Putnam/Tarcher, $24.95 (1-58542-018-2).

• Commodifying Human Experience: An Interview with Jeremy Rifkin; By Tamara Straus April 28, 2000

  "Jeremy Rifkin believes one day soon you will wake up and find that virtually every activity outside your immediate family has become a paid-for experience. Sound frightening? It should, Rifkin explains in his latest book, "The Age of Access." Here Rifkins talks with writer Tamara Straus about hypercapitalism, the dot-com generation, the Seattle protests and much more."

Can Civilization Survive ? by Jeremy Rifklin + note on Rifkin Date: 4 Apr 2000 08:14:31 -0400 [Published on Monday, April 3, 2000 in the Los Angeles Times Can Civilization Survive With A Greatly Reduced Government And Cultural Sphere, With Only The Commercial Sphere Left As The Primary Mediator Of Human Life? by Jeremy Rifkin]

The Biotech Century: Harnessing the Gene and Remaking the World (1998).

• From The Biotech Century - A Second Opinion : The Marriage of the Genetic Sciences and the Technologies Reshaping Our World, by Jeremy Rifkin CHAPTER ONE: The Biotech Century

  "Never before in history has humanity been so unprepared for the new technological and economic opportunities, challenges, and risks that lie on the horizon. Our way of life is likely to be more fundamentally transformed in the next several decades than in the previous one thousand years. By the year 2025, we and our children may be living in a world utterly different from anything human beings have ever experienced in the past...."

• Interview with Rifkin
• Rifkin's Foundation on Economic Trends [http://www.biotechcentury.org/]
• http://www.biotechcentury.org/rifkin.html

The End of Work - The Decline of the Global Labor Force and the Dawn of the Post-Market Era, Tarcher/Putnam, New York, 1995.

• Book Review: `The End of Work' By Jeremy Rifkin [http://www.technocracy.org/periodicals/nwtechnocrat/339/work.html] Stella Block, 1995 Published in: The Northwest Technocrat 2nd quarter 1995, No. 339
• TCI Convergence Book Reviews [http://www.inforamp.net/~tci/endwork.html]
• TYÖN LOPPU? Arviointi Jeremy Rifkinin kirjasta 'The End of Work' Ks. myös Raportti Rifkinin esiintymisestä Suomessa 3.2.1997
• End Of Work; The Decline Of The Global Labor Force And The Dawn Of The Post-Market Era [Sales] By: Rifkin, Jeremy // Foreword by Heilbroner, Robert L.
• See a video HERE! (A few sample minutes on the Two-Tier Society and the Marginalization of the Labor Force)

• A Rifkin Reader

Internet Sites:

• Vanishing Jobs Some business leaders are concerned, but politicians seem strangely deaf to what is likely to be the most explosive issue of the decade. "Will there be a job for me in the new Information Age?" Mother Jones, 1995

  Interview with Jeremy Rifkin

  We talk a lot about the coming changes to our world -- economic, political, technological. But Jeremy Rifkin says the central revolution of the next century will be Biotechnological, arguing that the computer revolution is merely a prelude to a far more significant change taking place in the global economy.

  Dossier, Jeremy Rifkin

  A publication providing succinct biographical sketches of environmental scientists, economists, "experts," and activists released by The National Center for Public Policy Research. Environmental Scientist: Jeremy Rifkin

  The End of Work? [Denis Susac - About.com Guide to: Artificial Intelligence]

  Where Napster Has Gone, Others Will Follow by Jeremy Rifkin; [http://www.speaking.com/articles_html/JeremyRifkin_877.html]

  At the heart of the (Napster) controversy is a clash that goes far beyond the music industry. What we`re witnessing is the beginning of an epic struggle between two great economic systems. On one side lies the old market-based economy, made up of sellers and buyers. On the other side lies the new network-based economy, made up of servers and clients. In markets, the parties exchange property. In networks, the parties share access to services and experiences.

  End of Work - 5 Years Later [Introduction to 2000 Penguin Paperback Edition]

  "IN THE FIVE YEARS that have elapsed since I published The End of Work, structural unemployment has remained dangerously high in Europe and countries around the world, despite gains in both global productivity and gross domestic product."

  The Partnering Initiative The "End of Work" As We Know It

  In his recent book, The End of Work, economist and political activist Jeremy Rifkin describes the dramatic shift the global economy is undergoing as we enter the next century. Rifkin documents the move from a mass worker economy to a high technology global economy that thrives on the innovations of labor-saving technology and corporate downsizing. "In the agricultural, manufacturing, and service sectors," he writes, "machines are quickly replacing human labor and promise an economy of near automated production by the mid-decades of the twenty-first century." Rifkin argues that government is also offering fewer employment opportunities, and that the rising high-tech industries are likely to increase the job pool only for a relatively small number of elite workers (1995). [Also service-learning]

  KEY NOTE SPEECH SUMMARY Rifkin described his three sector theory: the market sector, the government, the civil society, which includes the non-profit sector and the social economy.

  "[The third sector, civil society] creates social capital in both paid employment and volunteer work.... This third sector predated the other two. It's not marginal; it's not peripheral. It's the oldest of the sectors . . . " In the U.S. there are 1.2 million non-profit organizations. Rifkin is a proponent of "service learning," where students are required as part of their curriculum to go out into the community and contribute time to a non-profit organization as part of their organization.

  The Third Sector By Jeremy Rifkin, from his speech to Strasbourg Parliamentarians / NGO Conference 1999

  Jeremy Rifkin, president of the Foundation on Economic Trends based in Washington,

  ... has alerted the public about the scary concentration of power connected to the spread of biotechnologies, when there isn't adequate information.

  Charles Platt on Jeremy Rifkin

  I believe Rifkin is the commentator who poses the greatest threat to attempts to transcend limitations of the human condition. His book is useful as a catalogue of recent advances in molecular biology and genetics, but is pernicious and dishonest in its pretense to be a "guide," when in fact it is a polemic.

Acknowledgements (p.IX)
Foreword by Robert L. Heilbroner (p.XI)
Introduction (p.XV)

PART I: The Two Faces of Technology

1. The End of Work (p.3)
2. Trickle-down Technology and Market Realities (p.15)
3. Visions of Techno-Paradise (p.42)

PART II: The Third Industrial Revolution

4. Crossing into the High-Tech Frontier (p.59)
5. Technology and the African-American Experience (p.69)
6. The Grate Automation Debate (p.81)
7. Post-Fordism (p.90)

PART III: The Decline of the Global Labor Force

8. No More Farmers (p.109)
9. Hanging Up the Blue Collar (p.128)
10. The Last Service Worker (p.141)

PART IV: The Price of Progress

11. High-Tech Winners and Losers (p.165)
12. Requiem for the Working Class (p.181)
13. The Fate of Nations (p.198)
14. A More Dangerous World (p.208)

PART V: The Dawn of the Post-Market Area

15. Re-engineering the Work Week (p.221)
16. A New Social Contract (p.236)
17. Empowering the Third Sector (p.249)
18. Globalizing the Social Economy (p.275)

    
    Postscript (p.294)
    Notes (p.296)
    Bibliography (p.331)
    Index (p.337)

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    Contents

    Acknowledgements (p.IX)
    Foreword by Robert L. Heilbroner (p.XI)
    Introduction (p.XV)

    PART I: The Two Faces of Technology

    1. The End of Work (p.3)
       • Substituting Software for Employees (p.5)
       • Re-Engineering (p.6)
       • A World Without Workers (p.11)

    2. Trickle-down Technology and Market Realities (p.15)
       • The Roaring Twenties (p.17)
       • The Gospel of Mass Consumption (p.19)
       • The 'Share the Work' Movement (p.25)
       • The New Deal (p.29)
       • The Postwar World (p.32)
       • New Realities (p.33)
       • Retraining for What? (p.36)
       • The Shrinking Public Sector (p.37)

    3. Visions of Techno-Paradise (p.42)
       • Engineering Utopia (p.45)
       • The Cult of Efficiency (p.48)
       • From Democracy to Technocracy (p.52)

    PART II: The Third Industrial Revolution

    4. Crossing into the High-Tech Frontier (p.59)
       • Machines That Think (p.60)
       • The Plugged-In Species (p.62)
       • Putting Computers to Work (p.66)

    5. Technology and the African-American Experience (p.69)
       • Caught Between Technologies (p.73)
       • Automation and the Making of the Urban Underclass (p.77)

    6. The Grate Automation Debate (p.81)
       • The Government Steers a Middle Course (p.82)
       • Labor's Capitulation (p.84)

    7. Post-Fordism (p.90)
       • Old-Fashioned Management (p.92)
       • The Switch to Lean Production (p.96)
       • Re-Engineering the Workplace (p.100)

    PART III: The Decline of the Global Labor Force

    8. No More Farmers (p.109)
       • Soil and Software (p.113)
       • Molecular Farming (p.118)
       • The End of Outdoor Agriculture (p.123)

    9. Hanging Up the Blue Collar (p.128)
       • Automating the Automobile (p.129)
       • Computing Steel (p.132)
       • The Silicon-Collar Workforce (p.136)

    10. The Last Service Worker (p.141)
        • At Your Service (p.143)
        • The Virtual Office (p.146)
        • Downsizing the Wholesale and Retail Sectors (p.151)
        • Digitizing the Professions, Education, and the Art (p.157)

    PART IV: The Price of Progress

    11. High-Tech Winners and Losers (p.165)
        • Squeezing the Little Guy (p.166)
        • The Declining Middle (p.170)
        • The New Cosmopolitans (p.172)
        • The Other America (p.177)

    12. Requiem for the Working Class (p.181)
        • High-Tech stress (p.182)
        • Biorythms and Burnout (p.186)
        • The New Reserve Army (p.190)
        • The Slow Death (p.194)

    13. The Fate of Nations (p.198)
        • High-Tech Politics in Europe (p.200)
        • Automating the Third World (p.203)

    14. A More Dangerous World (p.208)
        • The Global Problem (p.213)

    PART V: The Dawn of the Post-Market Area

    15. Re-engineering the Work Week (p.221)
        • Toward a High-Tech Workweek (p.224)
        • Workers' Claim on Productivity (227)
        • Modest Proposals (p.229)
        • Trading Work for Leisure (p.233)

    16. A New Social Contract (p.236)
        • Life Beyond the Market Place (p.239)
        • An Alternate Vision (p.243)

    17. Empowering the Third Sector (p.249)
        • A New Role for Government (p.250)
        • The Third Sector and Partisan Politics (p.251)
        • Making the Third Sector Work (p.256)
        • Shadow Wages for Volunteer Work (p.256)
        • Social Wage for Community Service (p.258)
        • Financing the Transition (p.268)

    18. Globalizing the Social Economy (p.275)
        • A New Voice for Democracy (p.278)
        • The Last, Best Hope (p.286)

        
        Postscript (p.294)
        Notes (p.296)
        Bibliography (p.331)
        Index (p.337)

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