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>> FUTUREWORK: Redesigning Work, Income Distribution,
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>>FUTUREWORK is an international e-mail forum for discussion of how to
>>deal with the new realities created by economic globalization and
>>technological change. Basic changes are occurring in the nature of work
>>in all industrialized countries. Information technology has hastened the
>>advent of the global economic village. Jobs that workers at all skill
>>levels in developed countries once held are now filled by smart machines
>>and/or in low-wage countries. Contemporary rhetoric proclaims the need
>>for ever-escalating competition, leaner and meaner ways of doing
>>business, a totally *flexible* workforce, jobless growth.
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>>What would a large permanent reduction in the number of secure,
>>adequately-waged jobs mean for communities, families and individuals?
>>This is not being adequately discussed, nor are the implications for
>>income distribution and education. Even less adequately addressed are
>>questions of how to take back control of these events, how to turn
>>technological change into the opportunity for a richer life rather than
>>the recipe for a bladerunner society.
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>>Our objective in creating this list is to involve as many people as
>>possible in redesigning for the new realities. We hope that this list
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