Sleepers, wake! : technology & the future of work /
Sleepers, wake! : Technology and the future of work
Barry Jones.
- New edition.
- xii, 292 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-285) and index.
From a Pre-Industrial to a Post-Service Society -- An Age of Discontinuity -- A New Analysis of the Labour Force -- Two Types of Employment and Time Use -- Computers and Employment -- The Employment Revolution -- Education for Life (or Employment?) -- The Information Explosion and Its Threats -- Work in an Age of Automata -- Technological Determinism: 'But We Have No Choice' -- What is to Be Done? -- Appendix: Jones' Eight Laws. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11.
Australia - like Europe and the United States - is passing through a post-industrial revolution. Manufacturing continues to decline. Increasingly, we live in an information-based economy. Sleepers, Wake! - an enduring bestseller first published in 1982 and now available in a revised and updated fourth edition - confronts the challenges posed by science and technology and by Australia's changing economic position. Barry Jones, the former Australian Minister for Science and current National President of the Australian Labor Party, draws on the latest data to alert readers to the need to confront key issues associated with the post-industrial and information revolutions. He examines the contraction of the manufacturing industry and the rise of service employment, especially in information services. Sleepers, Wake! assesses these dilemmas and outlines a political programme to ensure that society profits from the technological revolution.
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Labor supply--Effect of technological innovations on--Australia Labor supply--Effect of technological innovations on Social change. Technology--Social aspects Technologists Labor supply--Australia Technological unemployment--Australia