Das Ende Der Arbeit Und Ihre Zukunft by Jeremy Rifkin

The Decline of the Global Labor Force and the Dawn of the Post-Market Era

A provocative analysis arguing that advances in automation and information technology are eroding traditional employment, producing structural unemployment and a shrinking global labor force; it examines how productivity gains, corporate restructuring, and market pressures are making many jobs obsolete and creating social and political strains. The book outlines the likely consequences of a post-work economy — rising inequality, social dislocation, and challenges to democratic institutions — and proposes policy responses such as shorter workweeks, job-sharing, public employment programs, strengthened social services, and investment in education and community-based economies to redistribute work and income. It calls for proactive social planning to manage technological change so that prosperity is shared rather than concentrated, and for rethinking the cultural and civic value of work in a transformed economy.